The following is a guest post by Jamie Cortland, author of Dying to Dance. Have we talked about creating characters? I hope so because if you’re ready to begin the book of your dreams, that’s exactly where we should begin. But, you say you’ve already thought of a great plot, the background, and even the background music if it becomes a movie. Great. But that’s not where to begin, no matter…
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From Venetian canals to Arizona desert, locales play critical role in mysteries
The following is a guest post by Mark Bacon, author of Death in Nostalgia City. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple belongs in an English drawing room in St. Mary Mead or perhaps somewhere in Cornwall. Author Raymond Chandler often stuck Philip Marlow in some dark alley in LA. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser inhabited…