I'm trying to imagine what a normie would think of Carr. (Where is the theme, the character development, the story?) His novels have little in the sense of narrative momentum. The penultimate chapter starts with a character we've never met, throwing us off the problem we're so invested in and grinding things to an unbearable… Continue reading The Reader is Warned
Done and done. This week I'll be selling books at a local author fair. It'll be a good chance to see if the covers can convert passersby into readers.
In today's edition of nobody-gives-a-damn, I've made slight adjustments to the Goodnight Irene cover. It's a bit brighter, title's bigger, my name's bigger, one new review quote, and I cleaned up the remaining quotes (removed ellipses and .coms, reformatted). Anything to take time away from working on the new book. Sigh... This should be available… Continue reading Slightly revamped Irene cover
What present to get for the mystery fanatic in your life? A week ago, mysteriesahoy! published an unboxing video of crossexaminingcrime's coffee and crime box. (By the by, you should be reading their blogs instead of mine.) It looked cute, I had a birthday coming up...why not? The package came rather quickly—all the way from… Continue reading Coffee and Crime Box
Fellers were money for jam, thought Sari, compared with trying to enchant small girls. Really one felt sorry for poor exhausted paedophiles... That's just one of the many lines in Christianna Brand's 1979 novel The Rose in Darkness that sent me into a fit of cackling delirium. Brand who can nail a characterization with the… Continue reading The Rose in Darkness
