We had a busy, long day Saturday. We got up at 7 am for the Kiwanis Club Spring Arts and Crafts Show and did well. That took until 2 pm. Bill’s providing the report for that, so I won’t rehash the day other than to say that, as always, it’s fun to get out and […]
Yes, work is continuing on the last volume in the 223B Casebook Series: “Sherlock Holmes Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches II: 1925-1930.” The stories have been assembled and the introductions and footnotes researched and written. The manuscript went off to First Reader (Teresa) and came back battered and stained in red ink. This past week, […]
For us, the local author Festival for Dauphin County library this past weekend started under a cloud. Our 14-year-old cat, Olga, decided we were getting too much sleep. So she challenged us in the middle the night to play “Find the Horking Cat.” Our floors are combination of throw rugs and would. So the challenge […]
We have the enormous luxury in Central Pennsylvania of having a few independent bookshops to choose from. I have frequently written about Cupboard Maker Books in Enola since we’ve done some signings there. We love that place. But there are other, equally wonderful places! I had the signal pleasure of being asked by Deb Beamer, […]
Teresa will be giving a talk at the Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop tonight about “Suburban Stockade” (now called “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered”) It’ll be her first, and for the last few days she’s been working on what she wants to say. Naturally, she asks me, her husband, for advice, which I’m naturally eager to do. “Is […]
I joined the Central Pennsylvania Romance Writers last March and it started paying dividends right away. I met a lot of great people who all understand the writing journey. I’ve learned a lot at each meeting. I started writing more thanks to the concept of fifty words a day. I attended the Damon Suede program […]
Work on the final volume of the 223B Casebook is still going on. All of the stories are in but one, and all but nine of them have their definitions written. We even have the last TwainLock story written (in fact, it was published in “The Casebook of Twain and Holmes”) In the meantime, and […]
Reader’s Almanac Born: Thomas Campion, poet, essayist, musician, London, 1567; Cotton Mather, theologist, essayist, poet, psalmist, Boston, Massachusett Bay Colony, 1663; Charles Darwin, naturalist, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1809; George Meredith, novelist, poet, essayist, Portsmouth, England, 1828; R(onald) F(rederick) Delderfield, short-story writer, novelist, London, 1912; Alan Dugan, poet, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1923; Judy Blume, novelist, children’s author, Elizabeth, […]
During the silent-movie days, in an era before union rules and lax government regulation, actors, directors and film studios risked life and limb to get exciting scenes onto celluloid. It’s hard to describe the mindset in which cowboys would be willing to earn $10 a day to crash their horses (with the help of tripwires). […]
The Mystery of Moldy Manor Charles Hamilton It’s been awhile since I’ve run a Sherlock Holmes parody. As of Jan. 2019, I’m still working on the last volume in the 223B Casebook series, this time covering the last five years of Conan Doyle’s life. In the meantime, let’s run another parody! This one’s by Charles […]