POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

Sandra Parshall I was happy to hear Ian McEwan on the radio last week, describing his habit of saving deleted passages from his novels becau...

Sandra Parshall I’ve heard that some editors no longer want to label a certain type of mystery as a “cozy” because they think it’s limiting....

Sandra Parshall Mystery writers, as much as any other authors, like to play up the image of the solitary wordsmith pecking away (preferably...

Sandra Parshall It was a dark and stormy night. Laugh, if you must, at this classic example of bad writing, but I sort of like it. For me, n...

Sandra Parshall Of course I’m thrilled that my 2006 book, The Heat of the Moon , won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel at the Malice Dom...

Sandra Parshall Attending Malice Domestic last spring as a first novelist was just about the most nerve-wracking experience of my life up to...

Sandra Parshall You know those sidewalk peddlers who try to make you believe they're selling you a real Rolex for twenty bucks? Sometime...

Sandra Parshall Humans are downright compulsive about labels. Everything has to be clearly identified, quantified, categorized. How else are...

Sandra Parshall Now, at last, I understand my urge to publish novels. It’s not a deep-seated desire to communicate. It’s not a need to purge...