Category: reading fiction
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Novel Basics: Card # 1
Novel Basics About those cards . . . I put the numbers, names, questions and images on the blank sides of cards and save the lined sides for my answers and specific notes. But you do whatever works for you. I also enjoy color, so I used a variety of colors of cards and different…
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Novel Basics Online
The online version of my Novel Basics class starts here and on Facebook tomorrow, March 27, 2020. Here’s an introduction. Novel Basics Online Class How to Brainstorm a Novel with 20 Index Cards I know you’re out there. I’ve met you in some way or another. Maybe you’re the less than confident young woman…
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Nancy Martin’s Miss Ruffles
A JKWryter Fav Long a fan of Nancy Martin’s Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, recently I came upon her stand-alone mystery, Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything while trolling the mystery section at my local library. I’m very glad I checked it out because this mystery has all the elements I’ve enjoyed in Ms. Martin’s other work, plus more.…
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A Magnificent Mystery
Marie Brennan’s Lady Trent Memoirs Starting with A Natural History of Dragons and ending with the recently published Within the Sanctuary of Wings, Marie Brennan’s five-book series, the imagined memoirs of a woman naturalist in an imagined alternate world, offers a lot to the reader. 1) For one thing, from their stunning covers to their…
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Edward Marston’s Exciting Railway Detective
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston A Review by Juliet Kincaid The first in Edward Marston’s Detective Inspector Colbeck Mystery series, The Railway Detective has lots to offer the historical mystery fan. Marston brings mid-19th century Britain to life with vivid descriptions of places like London’s Devil’s Acre, for one example, and for another, the…
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Good deal for readers
Here I am, all dolled up as Minty Wilcox, the heroine of my Calendar Mysteries, might have been if she went to a party in 1900. January Jinx, the first in the series, is available as an eBook for only $.99 from April 21 through April 27 at www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSSSBE4.
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Marching On
WiP Report # 17 Sorry, but I couldn’t resist the pun in my title. You see, the current Work in Progress, the third in my Calendar Mysteries, takes place in Kansas City, a place that could get downright deadly a hundred years or so ago, in March 1900 and it’s called Mischief in March. One…
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Encouraging Feedback on Fatal February
My dear friend and fellow writer Anne Bauman recently wrote me this letter of praise for Fatal February, the second calendar mystery. (I’ve omitted or rephrased here and there to avoid spoilers.) Dear Juliet, Congratulations on Fatal February, another terrific read. Yes, I enjoyed it immensely, both as a reader and a writer. Between the…