SleuthSayers

1 min read 2021-11-26 12:00:00

Black Friday

In year's past, anyone who read my previous blogs knows I am not a fan of Black Friday. To many, it's the official start of the Christmas

1 min read 2021-11-25 14:25:00

Well, it's that time of year again. Time to take a few moments and reflect on the blessings we have received, and to give thanks for same.Some

1 min read 2021-11-24 14:00:00

I got a call from the laundromat where I drop off my stuff for wash, dry, and fold, and they’d been broken into. Whoever it was had rifled the

1 min read 2021-11-23 13:00:00

I spent the last weekend of October at a VRBO in Comanche, Texas, with James A. Hearn and our spouses. The getaway was organized by Temple and Dawn,

1 min read 2021-11-22 12:00:00

by Steve LiskowA week ago, I did something I haven't done since 2004.Proof, that last audition, 2005I auditioned for a play at a local community

1 min read 2021-11-21 12:00:00

The Netflix miniseries Queen’s Gambit led me to check out the novel from my local library. I was charmed. The Walter Tevis story chronicles the

1 min read 2021-11-20 12:00:00

I think I've mentioned, here at SleuthSayers, the fact that I've been submitting almost as many short stories to anthologies as I have to

1 min read 2021-11-19 12:00:00

Every year I flip through the books on our Christmas shelf to see if I want to read or re-read any titles I’ve acquired and tucked there over the

1 min read 2021-11-18 12:01:00

[Sherlock Holmes said,] “It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more

1 min read 2021-11-17 12:00:00

by William Burton McCormickSherlock Holmes pastiches are a cottage industry. New adventures or parodies of the world’s most famous literary

1 min read 2021-11-16 12:00:00

I was once asked to explain voice, and I thought it was kind of like the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity: You know it when you see it. Voice

1 min read 2021-11-15 12:01:00

It may take me a while to respond to comments on today's blog for the best of reasons: I'll be hanging out with readers. The readers are students in

1 min read 2021-11-14 12:00:00

A little while ago, I was asked by a reporter to speak about the escalating threats against doctors on Twitter. Since then, that conversation has

1 min read 2021-11-13 12:00:00

The Fever Throes of NaNoWriMo2011. The one-month sprint is way on. In my thing, this European crime lord wants his painting back. Main character Clio

1 min read 2021-11-12 12:01:00

In a brief sojourn on social media, I spotted a post where a reader sat crying as she said, "Why did you write this book? It's hard."The