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.
2024 Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Juliana Aragón Fatula
/in Uncategorized/by Juliana Aragon FatulaDear Reader, Just so you know, I’ve switched to every other month so this is my first post and I’ll be back in April 2024. As for what I’ve been up to lately, I’ve been away from home staying with a friend and working on my novel. I’ve made the changes suggested by my […]
Where Do We Get Our Ideas?
/in Author Life, The Stiletto Gang, Uncategorized/by Mary Lee Ashfordby Sparkle Abbey People often ask authors where their ideas for particular books come from. And though it’s quite different from author to author, one thing we’ve discovered from hanging out with other authors is that most have no problem coming up with ideas for stories. In fact, most of us have far more ideas […]
Our Addiction to Simplicity-by T.K. Thorne
/in T.K. Thorne, Uncategorized/by TK ThorneA friend sent me a little story about someone who mocked a man for buying a fancy car, asking him if he realized how many people the money that he spent on the car could have fed. The man recounted all the jobs that were created to make/sell the car and noted that those jobs […]
The Whack-a-Mole Method of Writing
/in Author Life, Cozy Mysteries, How to Write/by Lois WinstonBy Lois Winston Every author has her own process. What works for one of us doesn’t work for all of us. Some authors are diehard plotters who create extensive outlines before ever committing that first sentence to paper (or in most cases, to keyboard.) Some are known as “pantsers,” authors who write by the seat […]
Celebrating All Things Edgar
/in Paula Gail Benson, Short Stories/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson Edgar Allan Poe, one of the country’s earliest practitioners of the short story, inventor of the detective fiction genre, and significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction, was born on January 19, 1809. In recognition of his birth, Edith Maxwell reminded readers of an anthology compiled by New England authors, Edgar Allan […]