Who are the Stiletto Gang?
The Stiletto Gang is a group blog full of traditional and indie published romance and mystery authors talking about writing, life, and how hard it is to find a new way to kill someone. Each day of the week features a new author. We keep our monthly blogging schedule posted in the sidebar. and we invite you to follow us on Facebook and/or sign up for daily blog alerts.
Disruptive Forces: Politics and Publishing
/in Uncategorized/by DebraDisruptive Forces: Politics and Publishing by Debra H. Goldstein I should be writing my blog, but instead I’m glued to my television set. The New Hampshire results are coming in. This is anything but the end of the political campaign, but a commentator just used a phrase to describe one candidate that I think probably […]
Equal Rights for Positives
/in Uncategorized/by Bethany Mainesby Bethany Maines A funny thing happens when you read your own reviews – you start thinking about them. I’m about a month away from completing the manuscript for Glossed Cause, the fourth book in the Carrie Mae Mystery Series, and I made the mistake of checking out a few of the reviews on High-Caliber […]
Writing in a Genre I Never Thought I Would
/in Uncategorized/by Marjorie BrodyMarjorie Brody Things I don’t do: watch horror movies, watch horror tv, read horror novels. When Kimberly Jayne, an author of romantic comedy, gave me the opportunity to read a prerelease edition of her dark fantasy, I thought, “Romantic comedy. Horror. Romantic comedy. Horror.” Surely a comedic author would write horror light enough I could […]
It’s a 70s’ Thing
/in Uncategorized/by Julie MulhernOf late, I’ve been trolling advertising from the 1970s. Call it research. Call it the human tendency to slow down and gape at a disaster. Seventies advertising, Mikie and his Life cereal excluded, was not a high-point for Madison Avenue. Women were objectified and belittled. Girls were sexualized. The ads followed attitudes. It was not […]
People Watching – A Writer’s Hobby
/in Uncategorized/by The Stiletto Gangby Sparkle Abbey If you haven’t heard, Iowa was quite a big deal this week. According to the NBC evening news Monday night, the whole world watched as we were the first state to caucus for the next president of the United States. We’re not sure the whole world was watching our state, but we […]