It might sounds weird, but I've just merged 4 sites with this one, so it is going to be a little messy here for a while. Please be patient. I'll be working through the pages and posts, making sure links work and everything is in the right place and things aren't duplicated. I'll also be [Read more...]
To read my new article, "Murder in the Bullpen," as well as articles from over 30 other mystery authors who have sports stories in their repertoire, check out the new issue of Mystery Reader's Journal. The entire list of articles: The Turf and the Gridiron in Detective Fiction by Gary Garner Adventure Crime-A Wild Niche [Read more...]
I saw the upcoming topic for Mystery Reader - “Scandinavian Mysteries” – and thought, “Nothing to do with me.” A few days later, I got an email about it and deleted it. Several weeks passed. Then, one day while my husband and I were babysitting our grandson, Leif, we got talking, for some reason, about [Read more...]
They all said I needed an advertising gimmick of some sort to give out at mystery conventions. Some people give out poker chips, wedding rings, rubber bands, tea bags, peanut butter cups, lollipops – you name it, it's been used. So – what could I use for Shaded Light ? I thought of a light [Read more...]
I suppose every writer likes to talk about how he or she wrote the "first one." Shaded Light wasn't my first published book, but it was my first mystery. And it took a lot of sweat, and a lot of time. I believe I've loved mysteries for as long as I can remember. When I [Read more...]
I don't consider myself a "real" writer. By that I mean someone who writes on a more or less regular basis. Instead, I'm kind of a binge writer. Now and then over the years I've found short or long periods of time in which to focus on something – usually a novel. Life always tended [Read more...]
Last week, I joined roughly 65 other people in the library of Toronto's castle, Casa Loma, for an evening of readings and questions with two very successful Canadian mystery authors, Giles Blunt and Louise Penny. It was a very interesting and informative evening. But what really struck me was how settings influence us. Both authors [Read more...]
While entertaining guests in our living room one day, I happened to glance under the piano bench, and there in all its splendour sat – a basketball. Was I embarrassed? Well, yes. But I remembered, not for the first time, a column by Erma Bombeck I read years ago. It was about her embarrassment at [Read more...]
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