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.
Where Are My TV Shows?
/in Uncategorized/by Stiletto GangEver since I was old enough to understand that those tiny people in the box were telling me stories, I’ve been hooked on television. And each year since I was about five years old, I’ve had a couple of favorite programs; my shows. Something I looked forward to each week, my little escape from a […]
Sex Sells (but that doesn’t mean I’m going to write about it)
/in Uncategorized/by Stiletto GangTo start, more spoilers: Alison and Crawford do have a relationship that involves sex. I just don’t think about it—or write about it very much. I have had some interesting feedback from interesting sources (that means you, MOM) about why my books are so chaste. About why I don’t include explicit sex. About why, in […]
Book Launch
/in Uncategorized/by Stiletto GangMy book launch for Smell of Death was Saturday. I live in California but during the winter you never know what the weather might be like. We’ve had plenty of sunny days since the beginning of the year, but this wasn’t one of them. That was the first of the problems. Three storms in a […]
Let’s Talk About Sex
/in Uncategorized/by Stiletto GangCharlaine Harris, who writes the hysterical Southern vampire mystery series, swears that her books took off once she started putting sex into them. Oy! I went to an Orthodox Jewish Day School through sixth grade (substitute Rabbis for nuns, keep the rules, and you get the picture). Try as I might to construct a love […]
My Write of Passage
/in Uncategorized/by Stiletto GangCynthia Smith, author of Noblesse Oblige, is our guest blogger today. Deep in the being of every non-fiction writer lies the longing to be a novelist. So after seven non-fiction books that did fairly well (which means if I depended upon royalties alone to make a living I’d be flipping burgers at McDonald’s) – I […]