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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.
Process Delayed Can Still be Progress…of a Sort
/in Author Life, How to Write, life, Lois Winston, Summer Reads/by Lois WinstonBy Lois Winston I’m not someone who immediately jumps into the next book as soon as I finish writing the previous one. My latest Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, A Crafty Collage of Crime, released on June 6th. Other than promotional blog posts, I haven’t written anything Anastasia-related since then. Haven’t even given much thought to […]
Peril in Pink: A New Series by Sydney Leigh!!
/in Cozy Mysteries/by Sydney Leigh/ Lynn McPhersonI’m so excited to share the cover and publication details with all of you for my new book, Peril in Pink, with Crooked Lane Books out March 19th 2024!!! Everything is coming up rosé for innkeeper Jess Byrne until a murder on opening weekend gives her B&B’s killer vibe a whole new meaning. Schitt’s Creek meets Only […]
Anthologies for Fall Reading
/in Uncategorized/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson This fall sees the release of at least four anthologies full of excellent mystery and crime fiction. Here’s a list to check out: School of Hard Knox. Fourteen authors try to break one of more of the ten rules Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox called “necessary to the full enjoyment of a […]
The Forgiveness of Whales—T.K. Thorne
/in T.K. Thorne/by TK ThorneUntil recently, scientists thought humans were the only species with the specialty brain neurons responsible for higher cognitive functions like self-awareness, a sense of compassion, and language. They were wrong. Fifteen million years before humans, whales began evolving these special glial cells, and now a strange phenomenon is occurring off the Baja coast of Mexico. Humans […]
My Rare Pink Rocks
/in Barbara J Eikmeier, life, Uncategorized/by Barbara EikmeierBy Barbara J. Eikmeier For many years I collected sea glass. I filled a small jar with pieces from beaches in Hawaii and California. It took a long time to fill my jar. Imagine my surprise when my sister took me to Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California. I felt like there was more glass […]