POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

  By Sandra Parshall A free download promotion for The Heat of the Moon has gained a lot more readers for my first Rachel Goddard novel, ...

Sandra Parshall Troublesome siblings are everywhere in crime fiction. Evil twins, bad-boy brothers, sisters who have shamed the family. Sibl...

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 Have you ever been so entranced by a book’s cover that you bought the book on the spot? Or so revolted that you put the nove...

Sandra Parshall I can’t get the girl out of my mind. I worry about her. I want to know what happen ed to her after the book ended. Throu gho...

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 I’m sure the man in the bookstore didn’t mean to hurt my feelings. I was doing my thing, standing by a table near the door a...

Sandra Parshall You’d think writers, of all people, would be able to define what it is they’re writing. In the crime fiction world, though, ...

Sandra Parshall The new baby doesn’t have a name. Yet. I’m still thinking “it” and “the book” and sometimes “the albatross” when I should ha...

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...

From All the Deadly Daughters! Congratulations to our own Sandra Parshall, whose book, THE HEAT OF THE MOON, was nominated for an Agatha Awa...