POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

by Sandra Parshall I go through this every year when I receive my Agatha Awards nomination ballot prior to the Malice Domestic myster...

by guest blogger Julia Williams, bookseller extraordinaire and offspring of Sheila Connolly, for reasons which will shortly become clear. ...

Sandra Parshall  Accosting a world-famous author in the restroom at a conference is considered the worst kind of behavior. But there was...

by Sheila Connolly When this blog posts, I expect to be at the Malice Domestic convention in Maryland. For those of you unfamiliar with it...

Sandra Parshall The Malice Domestic conference is big, noisy, and exhausting. You’d think everyone would be happy to head home afterward, bu...

Elizabeth Zelvin The short story is a form of mystery fiction that is often overlooked or underrated. For the writer, they can be both chall...

Sandra Parshall I thought donating naming rights for animals in one of my novels would be an easy way to contribute to charity auctions at m...

By Barb Goffman, guest blogger Hi. My name is Barb, and I have control issues. This might be a problem for some people, but I’ve found ways ...

Sandra Parshall Writers live in their own insular worlds – located mostly inside their heads – and editors live i...

Sandra Parshall Meryl Streep said recently that “there’s no such thing as the ‘best’ actress” and that “everybody wins” in a year when many ...

Sandra Parshall A popular mystery writer once said that her agent told her she could either be a “conference slut” or she could pick one or...

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 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...