From the Glass Ceiling – Through the Looking Glass! The Red Queen Effect Strikes Again!
By Pamela Ebel “Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you…
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The Story Behind “Vacations Can Be Murder”
On March 25, 2025, Level Best Books released Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide to New England. It’s the first of a multivolume true crime guidebook…
To Travel or Not to Travel, That Is the Question aka How Safe Is the US?
On to a less pleasant topic—travel within or into/home again in the United States. How safe is it? It’s conference time (see the new listings) but will the cons go…
Working Dogs in Crime Fiction
I recently returned home from Left Coast Crime (LCC) in Denver, a well-organized and delightful conference that occurs annually in different cities in the western region of the United States.…
How We Started There and Got Here
By Gary Young Thanks to Flo Selfman, I started with Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) about one million years ago, not sure if it was the right organization for…
Stash the Stiff
By Vinnie Hansen Last year, when registration for Left Coast Crime 2024 rolled around, my 70th birthday prompted me to seize new experiences. I took on moderating a panel and…
Author’s Corner
By Ed Mickolus This article originally appeared in Mensana, the newsletter of the North East Florida Chapter of Mensa. Why are you considering writing? As the designated Smartest Person in…
Pay Attention to Your Copyright Page
When Edgar Rice Burroughs published The Princess of Mars in 1917, the copyright belonged to the publisher and made absolutely no mention of the author’s name. In essence, Edgar Rice…
Help! Meta Stole My Work!
This article originally appeared on The Authors Guild: Meta’s Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors…
You Can’t Come In
Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US. Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los…