Kirkwood by the River – July 28, 2023
“From Kid to Judge to Author” – a book talk at 3:30 p.m.
Guest Blogger: G.P. Gottlieb – Have You Always Wanted to Write a Book?
Have you Always Wanted to Write a Book? I could never get above a B in Honors English. My family had moved to a ritzy suburb, and I’d transferred from a rougher, less prestigious high school into a swanky one where girls wore matching shoes and purses. I wore army fatigues and boots. The kids …
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It’s Not Always a Mystery – But it’s Always a Puzzle! by Valerie Burns
Debra, thanks for inviting me to “It’s Not Always a Mystery.” I’ve loved mysteries since I read my first Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew books many moons ago. When I picked up my first Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Akroyd, I fell head over heels in love. I jumped into the deep end of …
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Sleuthfest – July 6-9, 2023
Debra will be featured on the “How to Write Back Copy,” “Writing Your Own Newsletter Content,” and “The Importance of Strong Secondary Characters (Sidekicks)” panels during the July 6-9 conference being held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Deerfield Beach-Boca Raton.
Story Fodder by Susan Van Kirk
Recently, I read a blog post by writer Annette Dashofy in which she mentioned an idea that gave me pause. “As writers,” she wrote, “we tend to mine the emotional moments in our lives for story fodder.” This thought certainly rang true with me, but I hadn’t connected it to my most recent mystery series. …
Digging Up a Story: Weaving Fact into Fiction by Kathleen Kaska
I write two mystery series, one set in the 1950s and one in current times. In plotting the mysteries, I start digging—researching actual events at the time and location of my story’s setting. For example, my upcoming Sydney Lockhart mystery, Murder at the Pontchartrain, is set in New Orleans, a city rich in culture and …
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Something Old and Something New by Francelia Belton
Aah, who doesn’t love a good wedding? The flowers, the cake, and most important of all, the beautiful bride in her gorgeous dress. But then there’s the multitude of things that can go wrong on this most sacred of traditional days. The meddlesome mother-in-law, the groom still hungover from last night’s bachelor party, the photographer …
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Let’s Make a Mystery
Let’s Make a Mystery Panel Moderator for SinC’s Desert Sleuths – June 21, 2023.
Murder We Write Podcast
Murder We Write Podcast with Carol Goodman Kaufman featuring Debra H. Goldstein – June 5, 2023 (available on Spotify and other podcast channels).
Red Hats and Cummerbunds
“Red Hats and Cummerbunds,” Tales From the Golden State of Mind, published May 18, 2023.