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.
Focus by Debra H. Goldstein
/in Author Life, Cozy Mysteries, How to Write, Publishing, Series/by Saralyn RichardFocus by Debra H. Goldstein Focus. From a writer’s perspective, the word embraces a simple but necessary concept – concentrating on the task at hand. It sounds easy: pay attention and the idea will be conceived, executed, eventually published, and promoted. But, that’s not how the real world works. Life offers each of us major […]
Readers Love Mysteries…
/in Author Life, characters, Detective, Kathryn Lane, Mystery, Nikki Garcia Mystery Series, Sherlock Holmes/by Kathryn Lane…and readers also love sleuths that solve mystery after mystery after mystery, such as Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous protagonist, Sherlock Holmes. The genius detective solved mysteries and crimes during Conan Doyle’s lifetime and today continues to be one of the most popular characters in TV crime series. Sherlock Holmes is the archetypal detective. He uses […]
Three of my favorite fitness tips
/in Author Life/by Debra SennefelderHappy March! We’re three months into 2023 and I wonder, if resolutions were made at the beginning of the year, how are we doing? According to the Forbes Health/One Poll survey, 39% of the respondents had a goal to improve health, 37% wanted to lose weight and 33% wanted to improve their diet. However, a […]
The War Against Women That No One Wants to Admit–and a Poem
/in Poetry, The Stiletto Gang/by Linda RodriguezTrigger Warnings for child molestation and abuse and for sexual assault and domestic violence. Whenever I read this poem in public, I preface it with a statement that there is a war against women taking place, followed by the current statistics on sexual assault, rape, physical assault, and murder, statistics that have risen every time […]
Research Adventures: Starting a New Series
/in Author Life, Cozy Mysteries, Uncategorized/by Mary Lee Ashfordby Sparkle Abbey How is it that February is already in the books? 2023 is moving right along and we shared last month that we kicked off the new year by beginning to write a new mystery series. We also shared that the new series is not set in California like our Pampered Pets books, […]