On using `Part of the Solution’ as a title
When I was first drafting a murder mystery about a group of political activists and dreamers, it occurred to me that “Part of the Solution” was the obvious title to […]
The Reality of Murder Mysteries
I am both a writer and reader of murder mysteries. I love the puzzle. I love watching the pieces come together in the detective’s mind, usually in ways I know […]
On murder mysteries and 19th century novels
It’s hard to find the nerve to write a novel when you’ve studied literature in graduate school. A lot of us do it, of course – professors of English writing […]
On reading novels
One of the strange things about publishing a novel is that suddenly strangers will be reading it. That should be obvious, but it isn’t something that had ever occurred to […]
My thoughts on Murder Mysteries
Prompted by my wonderful publishers, I’ve been setting up what they call “author pages” on various book-lovers’ platforms. Signing onto them for the first time, I’ve been surprised to find […]
The Journey Behind Writing Part Of The Solution
What a strange, strange moment to be publishing a murder mystery that takes us Boomers back to our twenties and records, in some small way, moments of idealism and disillusionment. […]