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Karen cracked. (They always do…) To subscribe to this blog, without divulging your email address, click on the Newsgator button on the left-hand sidebar or simply post the following text into your RSS browser: http://www.poisonpixie.com/chanceryblogfeed.xml A...
Published on 10/06/2008 in Chancery Stone - Saving the World From Mediocre Writing | Read more ...
Well, we all knew this day had to come. Here is the final part (sob) in my Nora Roberts trilogy: How to Write Like Nora Roberts and Get Sort of Rich and Sort of Famous (in a Low-Rent Kind of Way). Not the snappiest of my 'How To' titles, I admit, but accuracy in all things. ...
Published on 09/26/2008 in Chancery Stone - Saving the World From Mediocre Writing | Read more ...
I realise lots of good things happened today, all over the world. But checking CNN headline news this evening, here's what I found: Bus passenger beheaded seat mate, witness says , in Manitoba, Canada. More , including identity of killer and victim, but still no motive. ( 2 Aug upda...
Published on 08/01/2008 in Beyond Rivalry | Read more ...
A few websites that offer excellent comprehensive and/or in-depth information about crime novels. LISTS Stop, You're Killing Me! lists more than "2,500 authors, with chronological lists of their books (nearly 29,000 titles), both series (2,900+) and non-serie...
Published on 07/28/2008 in Beyond Rivalry | Read more ...
An ancient family story describes a domestic science lesson (that's what they were called then). A teacher told an unenthusiastic child to 'put some elbow grease into it!' Some time later she was found searching high and low in a cupboard in a desperate attempt to find the stuff. Call me a re...
Published on 07/13/2008 in diaphania | Read more ...
The first in another series, this one documenting mob violence, vigilante justice, and crowd retaliation around the world. ---- Mark Heim has well summarised Rene Girard's ideas on the expediency of scapegoating and sacrifice as a (temporary) peace-making tool, a way to l...
Published on 03/28/2008 in Beyond Rivalry | Read more ...
Gideon, writing at a public defender , criticizes castration of violent felons because those violent felons may be rehabilitated: Prof. Berman asks whether chemical castration (if proven to work) should be employed (actually, why shouldn’t it be). As readers might guess, I am uneasy with this ...
Published on 01/17/2008 in tdaxp | Read more ...
Tom McAnea was jailed last this week for six years in Glasgow after being caught printing millions of Euros and Sterling . ‘Hologram Tam’ he was dubbed by the Glasgow police, as he was an expert in his field. Tam was known the world over for being the best in his b...
Published on 10/04/2007 in Janey Godley’s Blog | Read more ...
An Associated Press story, 3 Charged in PC Magazine Editor's Death : Three men have been charged with murdering a senior editor for PC World magazine in what police said was an attempt to steal marijuana that the victim's son grew in their home for medical use.Rex Farrance, 59, the San Francisco...
Published on 09/26/2007 in tdaxp | Read more ...
Writer and crime novel reviewer Sarah Weinman is soliciting favourite film noir quotes as a tribute to the genre. A couple gems, both from The Way of the Gun , from the comments on her blog: "Karma's justice without the satisfaction. I don't believe in justice." &n...
Published on 08/14/2007 in Beyond Rivalry | Read more ...
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