Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Dying for a Riddle
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
Halloween-Murder In My Home
Dying
For Halloween
By
Tj O’Connor, author of Dying to Know & Dying for the Past, New Sins for Old Scores, and others
But wait … what? Me sappy and romantic for the changing leaves and children scurrying around dressed like Bill Clinton and Batman?
Sorry. No.
Halloween has a special place in my heart, but it’s not born
of sappy memories or trick or treat (it is but I’ll never tell). I grew up in
the country in Upstate New York and spent a good amount of time in the
outdoors. Yes, I love the changing fall colors and the scents and sounds of the
season. Yes, it conjures up some great memories—and some pretty horrible ones,
too. But, none of these is why October makes me giggle and swoon like my wife
at a shoe sale.
It’s about the killing and the mayhem. It’s about the dark,
maniacal gathering—the food, the spirits … murdering the entire family one at a
time ... and slowly. Oh yeah, baby, it’s
here. Bring on the hors d'oeuvres, the expensive wines, and the spread of
gourmet delights. Sharpen that cleaver and load up the pistols. It’s time for a
killing. Or two. Maybe three or four—“The
wine is delightful and the mussels marinara divine—bang, you’re dead!” Uh, perhaps a little explanation is in order. I think I heard a siren coming up the road.
Each year for the past many years (and each summer years ago when my kids were younger and less a pain in the …), I sponsor an annual Halloween murder mystery dinner party. No, not one of those “out of the box” dinner parties with lame scripts and phony dialogue (I tried one and it was horrible.) No, I’m talking a homegrown, authored by moi, props galore, murder-in-abundance dinner party for my family and friends. As my two passions are cooking and writing, I put on a spread of tons of good food, write the storyline, and perform as the master of killer-monies (read that ceremonies for you slow folk). What a blast! The storyline and party include prizes for best costume, prize for who solves the murder, prizes for who solves any murders that take place during the evening, and prizes for who ends up with the most money (fake of course) at the end of the party. Party Note: The money is a story prop used as bribery, graft, payoffs, extortion, and general mayhem. While I try to control this mayhem, I am rarely successful. Like before I let anyone into my home, they must undergo a body search for unauthorized weapons, cheats, their own fake money, and other props used to steal the show. Each year, I lose this battle miserably—like the year the meek, mild victim who should have died in Act II ended up killing more party guests and surviving the evening more than anyone. Damn, I didn’t see that one coming.
If you want to see a bunch of friends and family turn on each other for three hours, throw one of these gigs. Spouses kill spouses. Children kill parents. Friends kill everyone. And in the end, nothing—no one—is sacred! Even my yellow Lab was assassinated three times in one evening—give that boy a shrimp and a cookie and he becomes a ham!
Last year—2013—the costume theme was favorite monster movie characters. The storyline was about a family patriarch who was about to sell his new book The Killing of Tyler Quinn, but the family all had a piece of it and wanted their cut. (Yes, it does sound familiar to me, too.) So the patriarch, his agent, publisher, and editor were all killed out of vengeance and greed (sorry Midnight Ink, Melanie, Kimberley…honest, there were stand-ins!). It took about thirty minutes and one round of drinks before the partygoers were killing each other off and trying to win the game—and not on script, either.
Over the years, I’ve thrown murder parties surrounding 1930 gangsters trying to take over my turf in Winchester (if you know Winchester, that wouldn’t take long). There have been superhero parties where it was open season on plotting the murders of your spouse and best friend. And even pirate treasure themes and on and on.
The funniest part of these events is that I spend weeks writing the plot and putting together crime scene clues, evidence, and all the characters—only to have my guests run away with the show and start improvising as they go! No one has any lines. Each player has a character to play and gets a card during three rounds of the evening (appetizers, dinner, dessert rounds) which tell them what they must accomplish and do. Last year, the players had to solve a series of clues, puzzles, and hidden secrets to find all the evidence—after examining a crime scene. They were stealing each other’s clues, locking others in the bathroom, moving evidence to hide it from the others, and even stealing my artwork on the walls “just in case it meant something.” It was so exhausting even my three Labs found a corner to hide out in. It took three days to straighten my house afterwards!
Publication Note: No animals or stuffed animals were injured during these productions. My artwork and memorabilia is another matter. And my liquor cabinet takes weeks to recover. As does my refrigerator. And nerves. And checkbook.
But alas, the laughs and the food and fun lasted long after the party was over.
This year, the theme is “Shaken Not Stirred” and the costumes are their favorite sci-fi (not syfy) movie characters. The storyline is about spies and counter-spies trying to find each other’s secrets and kill off the enemy agents. I’m sure I won’t have to write too many details—the imaginations of the partygoers—most on their 7th or 8th event—will write it themselves. The question will be—will I survive for another October-kill next year?
Stay tuned. Listen to your police radios. Watch the night sky.
Maybe I’ll use up another blog in November to report on the
mayhem and pass around a few photos. If you don’t hear from me though, they got
me again. Hopefully, none of my family or friends will use my annual gala as a
means to my real end.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Dying For A Sequel
Dying
For A Sequel
By
Tj O’Connor, author of Dying to Know & Dying for the Past
The answers to the first two questions—sales and critics—is
fodder for a future blog. For now, the answer to “what the hell will you do for
an encore” is easy…Write a sequel.
And therein lies the terror. Oh, so many terrors. What if I
can’t capture the story and characters again? What if the first one fails and
the second one is worse? Worse… what if the first one is great and the second
one stinks? What if… And so goes the sleepless nights and reams of paper in
search of the solution.
When Midnight Ink demonstrated their class and stature in
the publishing world by signing me to write three novels in the Gumshoe Ghost series (note—this series title is not my doing…honest!), I
had already penned two more murder, different mysteries—New Sins for Old Scores, which my agent is currently trying to
place in the market (any of you publishing pros out there, here’s your chance…
call my Kimberley Cameron!) and The
Killing of Tyler Quinn, which is presently in rewrite. But Midnight Ink
wanted two more Oliver Tucker stories—the Gumshoe Ghost himself—so I teed up Dying for the Past, which will be out
January 8, 2015, and Dying to Tell, coming
in 2016.
The first dilemma I had was how to transition from book one
to book two, Dying for the Past. Let
me set the stage for the difficulties I had. Book one—Dying to Know—is the story of Oliver “Tuck” Tucker, a detective murdered
in the opening chapter who returns to help his wife, Angel, and former partner,
Bear Braddock, solve his crime. Of course, there are a half-dozen other important
characters, including Hercule, Tuck’s black Lab companion; Poor Nic, a
loveable/hateable retired mobster; and several secondary characters of note,
too. The story, as with all the sequels, intertwines a current murder with a
historical subplot involving murder and intrigue. The two story lines weave and
cross back and forth and conclude together. Always. Thus, there are two
timelines surrounding the characters—the present concerning the murder, and the
distant past surrounding the historical plot. Tuck can move between these
timelines and does to solve the cases. It’s like playing three dimensional
chess with dead bodies!
So, the dilemma was—do I treat Dying for the Past (book two) like a standalone story or write it
as though it’s simply the next chapter of a longer story. In my case, I took an
eclectic approach and wrote Dying for the
Past as a standalone story, but let the storyline flirt with Dying to Know (book one) as though a
continuing chapter in Tuck’s larger story. Thus, in Dying for the Past, I have an entirely new murder(s) and the
historical subplot that includes 1939 gangsters, Russian spies, and the search
for the book that has the key to
modern day spies and traitors. I reintroduced my characters, periodically mentioned
the plot and outcome of the Dying to Know—but
sparingly—and created a new cast of fresh good guys and bad guys to support those
returning characters from Dying to Know.
And, much to my pleasure, it worked—having a dead guy solve crimes creates a
lot of challenges!
Part of the allure of a good mystery is the characters. They
have fears, strengths, weaknesses, and history to unravel. After exhausting
myself trying to make Dying to Know a
good mystery novel, I was again terrified about how I would keep my main
characters fresh, interesting, and still a little mysterious to any reader who
already read the first novel. The danger would be having nothing new for the
reader to learn about them.
I found the solution by developing the second set of support
characters for Dying for the Past.
Each of the Gumshoe Ghost sequels will have new characters supporting the
story—after all, it’s a murder mystery so not all of them will make it to “The
End.” And these new characters allowed me to create new fears, strengths,
weaknesses, and storylines for my main characters to evolve. Human nature is
that way, right? How you act with one person is not always the same as with
another. How you respond to one situation or crisis is not always the same as
in another, particularly if new people are involved. I used these new
characters to drive my main character’s new storylines and, in doing that,
create new things for the reader to discover about them. In book one—Dying to Know— Tuck is learning how to
be a dead detective. In book two—Dying
for the Past—Tuck finds his family roots; and some are roses and some are deadly
nightshade, let me tell you. Now, Angel and Bear are coming to grips with
Tuck’s demise—after all, figuring out how to live and work with a dead guy isn’t
easy. There are other key characters, too—like Poor Nic, the loveable/hateable
retired mob boss—who has so many skeletons in his closet that Tuck can’t count
them.
As Tuck’s sequels continue, Tuck will learn more and more
about his family and with each one, have to investigate yet another historical
crime along with a new one. Angel and Bear will find out that life with and
without Tuck has a lot of twists and turns. The new characters in each sequel
will bring along their own baggage, influences on the main characters, and body
bags.
The biggest conflict I found in writing sequels was deciding
which characters to keep around and which to send on vacation. In book one—Dying to Know—I received a lot of great
comments about several characters—Poor Nic, the aforementioned love/hate mobster;
André Cartier, Angel’s uncle; Detectives Cal Clemens and Mike Spence, the
brilliant yet bumbling partners; and even Doc Gilley, Tuck’s spirit mentor. My
problem was, in book two—Dying for the
Past—I had a new crew of story characters to add and didn’t have room for
everyone to return. The questions were: who would sit out the sequels? How do I
explain where they went—not everyone can be sick or on vacation, right? Who
would be most popular or have the biggest impact on the series? The answer lay
in what I like to think was a brilliant strategy—I listened to my readers, asked my agent and publicist, and read who
the critics keyed on. Then, I ignored all that and kept those characters who moved
me. You see, certain characters came
alive to me—other than Tuck, Angel, and Bear, that is. They presented so many
possibilities for future stories and subplots that I had to keep them around
and use them to stir things up. In the end, if they stirred things up in book one,
they returned to book two. If not, they got the flu, moved away, were out to
lunch, on vacation… you get the idea.
After all is said, there were so many challenges to writing
my sequels, I cannot recall them all. But it suffices to say, they kept me up
many, many nights.
Dying for the Past is
a better novel than Dying to Know,
and I hope Dying to Tell is better
than both. You see, I think I’m learning as I go and my characters are teaching
me. Dying for the Past was
challenging, too, as it made me search for what I wanted from Tuck, Angel,
Bear, and even Poor Nic. With each sequel, I will try to challenge each of my
characters to keep my readers—and me—guessing. After all, I write what my
characters tell me—resistance to them is futile.
I’ve just wrapped Dying to
Tell—book three—and after explaining my process for dealing with sequels, I
have some rewriting to do! I hope you
enjoy Tuck’s cases in Dying to Know, Dying for the Past, and Dying to Tell… visit my site and drop me
a line. I’d love to hear from you!
This post has been reprinted from http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com where I am a monthly contributor.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Dying for History - Key Elements of My Novels
Dying
For History-Key Elements of My Novels
By
Tj O’Connor, author of Dying to Know & Dying for the Past
Every good book I’ve ever read intrigued me not just because of the main story, but because it had subplots and vignettes that kept the main story buoyed with a touch of complexity and diversion. One of my favorite subplot techniques is the interweaving of real history into the storyline. There are many facets of using historical events as a subplot in my stories that I enjoy. Among them, performing research and finding twists and turns from real-life events are my favorites. The old adage, “History Repeats Itself” has become a mainstay subplot of my novels.
Let me give you a few examples.
Dying to Know—In my debut novel, dead-detective Oliver “Tuck”
Tucker is faced with solving his own murder and dealing with a series of grisly
others. Some of the murders go back over forty years. The historical subplot
revolves around the American Civil War—a significant era in the history of real-life
city Winchester, Virginia. The story, and resulting murders, begin when the
discovery of unmarked Civil War remains threatens to halt a multi-million
dollar development project. The battle between history and development is a
fact in Winchester. For years, the county has considered building a highway
bypass around parts of the city. But in its path is at least one Civil War
battlefield. More angst and skirmishes have resulted over this conflict than
perhaps in some of the many battles Winchester actually fought in the war. If
you know anything about historical sites, you might know that the protection of
historical lands often trump new construction, development, and even some
modern zoning laws across our country. And trust me, getting in the way of
development is a sure fire way of creating a crisis in your community. Land
barons are often in battle over future development with societies sworn to
protect historical sites. In Dying to
Know, the land dispute and Civil War connections to Tuck’s murder are
rooted in real Winchester History and drive the story from several viewpoints.
Dying for the Past—Tuck and his pals are back in Book II and
encounter the death of a mysterious philanthropist who seems to have a wad of
Grover Clevelands in his pocket—1930’s Gold Certificate one-thousand dollar
bills. Notwithstanding a plethora of sketchy characters, Dying for the Past’s historical subplot focuses on 1930’s mobsters
and their pre-World War II collaboration with our own FBI. This theme follows
Tuck and others chasing “The Book”—an old mobster’s journal detailing Nazi and
Russian spy rings around Washington D.C. and New York City. This subplot is
based on true events in our history. In the late 1930s and 1940s, the U.S.
Government sought the help of folks who knew our ports, rail yards,
transportation hubs, and the gritty underbelly of American cities where spies
and saboteurs might hang out. Who did they turn to? The second largest
intelligence network in the country—organized crime. During those days, the U.S.
was concerned about Nazi, Japanese, Russian, and even Italian efforts to
conduct wartime sabotage and subversion operations against us here at home.
Organized crime families had deep inroads into some of the biggest targets in
the country—New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, Detroit, and many other port
cities. Well-known gangsters such as Lucky Luciano were reputed to have
assisted American authorities in the war effort. In Luciano’s case, his
organization reportedly helped gather intelligence for the invasion of Sicily
and in the protection of New York’s ports against saboteurs and spies.
Borrowing from these historical vignettes, I transposed some of the mob
connections to Winchester and molded the plot around just such a storyline—1930’s
mobsters helping track World War II spy rings. The result, with some colorful
characters involved in the present day murders, set the foundation for a murder
plot that lasted for more than seventy-five years.
New Sins for Old Scores—In
an unrelated mystery series that my brilliant agent, Kimberley Cameron, is
offering to the market as we speak, I use a real World War II OSS operation—Office
of Strategic Services—and superimpose it into present-day Northern Virginia.
The story surrounds Richard Jax, a Virginia State Police investigator under
suspicion for the murder of his partner. Jax is thrust into the story when he
is almost killed after stumbling onto a strange human-trafficking operation out
of an old World War II Inn. Unbeknownst to him, he connects with Captain Trick
McCall—a murdered OSS Operative from World War II—who was believed a double
agent who betrayed his country. Together, they pursue their two cases—separated
by seventy years—and learn that history is repeating itself. The story
surrounds real-life Operation Paperclip,
the American OSS operation to spirit scientists and industrialists out of
war-torn Europe before the Nazi or Russians could further exploit them. Operation Paperclip was responsible for
the U.S. making significant scientific gains, especially nuclear and jet
propulsion technology, being explored by the Germans. In New Sins for Old Scores,
I superimposed this human-capitol operation into modern-day Middle Eastern
theaters of combat, and added in a rogue element of prior World War II
operatives and modern-day mercenaries who move Middle Easterners out of
Afghanistan and Iraq to the U.S.—for profit and exploitation. This spin on Operation Paperclip helped me create a
viable plot that was worth murder to keep secret, and linked the modern human
traffickers to real-world World War II spy exploits. It also raises the
question—could it really be happening? So once again, I took a historical episode
and superimposed it into a modern-day murder mystery to create the environment
and plot necessary for my characters to be plunged into crisis and murder—and
link their cases to crimes of the past.
History appeals to me in many ways as a reader, but it
motivates me as an author. In a time that every plot and every character-type
seems to have been written over and over as often as redos of Superman, historical events give me a
foundation of facts for which I can create new plots and characters, and
hopefully offer a new spin on intrigue.
I have two other novels—Dying to Tell and The
Killing of Tyler Quinn—that have a historical subplot woven into modern-day
mysteries. But I’ll save those discussions for another time.
Learn about his world at www.tjoconnor.com and Facebook at www.facebook.com/TjOConnor.Author.
This Blog also appears at http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Launch the Party!
It’s here—Launch the Book Launch Party! Pour the wine and start
wringing the hands… cross all the fingers and toes… Dying to know has been released and now I’m really in the thick of
it!
On January 8th Dying to Know—my first of three murder mysteries set in Winchester,
Virginia, went on sale. To my dismay, not on all the shelves. Not even in my
home town. The local chain bookstore isn’t carrying unless the manager makes a
request. Great news! Now, if only the manager would talk to me… alas, the
perils of an unknown author.
But those that have found a copy on Amazon,
Midnight
Ink, Barnes
& Noble, and Books-A-Million
either in stores or on-line have been giving me some great reviews. I’ve
already heard from some new fans who are waiting for the first sequel, Dying for the Past—just approved by
Midnight Ink and it will be out next January.
A call
to arms: If you’ve read Dying to Know,
go on Amazon, Good Reads, or other sites and give me a review. A great review
is preferable. A good review is acceptable. A so-so review is painful. And a
bad review is damnable. But review nonetheless! Review with your heart. I’m a
swell guy. Honest. No really, stop laughing…
But in all seriousness, I’ve gotten some great
reader reviews and a few professional ones, too. I’m sure the bad ones will
come (and I know who you are!) Until
then, my PR pro—the amazing Maryglenn McCombs— has been lining up some great
coverage, including some blogs, interviews, book reviews, and special coverage.
She’s done an amazing job getting my name and book out there where no one ever
heard of me. Below are some of her finer efforts (and many more to come).
January 17:
Feature article in Northern Virginia Daily (Entertainment section) on me
and Dying to Know.
January 18: Book Launch Party — Old Town
Winchester, VA!
January 25: Book signing at Around the Block Books
in Purcellville, VA—11 am to 3 pm. Prizes and snacks to boot.
January 25: Suspense Radio Interview at 1:30
pm EST.
February 1: Book signing at Winchester Book Gallery, Old
Town Winchester, VA—11 am to 1 pm.
Here’s a
taste of some others:
A Day in the
Life—err, death—of Oliver Tucker: Courtesy of Dru Ann Love and Dru’s Book
Musing:
http://wp.me/p3nHH-4pY
http://notesfromme.wordpress.com/category/a-day-in-the-life/
Campaign for the American Reader multiple articles with the help from Marshal Zeringue:
Coffee with a Canine:
http://americareads.blogspot.com/2013/12/coffee-with-canine-tj-oconnor-his-labs.htmlCoffee with a Canine: Tj O’Connor & Toby, Mosby, and Maggie Mae
Omnimystery http://www.omnimystery.com/omnimystery.html
http://www.omnimysterynews.com/2014/01/a-conversation-with-mystery-author-tj-oconnor-1401090800.html
Crimespree
Magazine: http://crimespreemag.com/an-interview-with-tj-oconnor/Criminal Element feature about Dying To Know
New Book Journal has featured Dying To Know (and added to Pinterest):
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/61994932344543096/
Lori’s Reading Corner—Spotlight Feature on the book:
So stay tuned. More to come. Dead bodies and all.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
14 Days and Counting...
14 Days to go… Dying
to Know hits the shelves.
And in the meantime, I’ve been featured on a few interesting blogs.
Check out those with the Campaign for the
American Reader at:
Coffee
with A Canine at; http://americareads.blogspot.com/2013/12/coffee-with-canine-tj-oconnor-his-labs.html
and at Coffee with a Canine: Tj O’Connor & Toby, Mosby, and Maggie Mae
And also on a
wonderful site “Dru’s Book Musings” at http://notesfromme.wordpress.com by Dru Ann Love. Dru Ann has a feature on
Dying to Know at http://notesfromme.wordpress.com/category/a-day-in-the-life/. My feature will go live on January 6th at http://wp.me/p3nHH-4pY, but take a look at her other great features and
postings.
Much more to come in January with more from Campaign
for the American Reader, Criminal Element, Omnimystery, Suspense Radio, News
Reads, Mystery Anthology Magazine, and others!
I’ll post the links and times/dates as they are available.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays to
all.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Dying to Know... in 30 Days!
It’s been a very long nine months since I received the news
that Dying to Know would be published
by Midnight Ink. But here I am… thirty days and counting. It’s a mixture of
excitement and trepidation. I’m excited that the first of my series featuring
Oliver “Tuck” Tucker, Angel, Bear, and of course Hercule, will arrive in
bookstores in thirty days. But I’m also sad, too, because that means Tuck will
be murdered that very day, too. Oh, and there are a couple others who will be Dying to Know with him, but they’re not
stars, so they have to just suck it up and deal.
But, at least Tuck has one last Christmas. I wonder if he
knows he’s end is coming?
I hope he’s ready for this. I am. I’ve gone through a
half-dozen edits, two rounds of fact checking, wrangled a blurb from the
bestselling author, Stephen Frey, author
of Arctic Fire and the upcoming Red Cell Seven, and finished the first
of two sequels for Tuck’s case files, Dying
for the Past. Luckily, Tuck’s pending murder hasn’t slowed either of us
down. In fact, it’s the whole point. We’ve done some of our best work after his
murder. At least I think so.
Dying for the Past
is Tuck’s second case and is due out the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015.
The story finds Tuck investigating the murder of a mysterious philanthropist
with ties to the Russian mob. The case leads him into the world of 1930’s
gangland hoods, Soviet spies, a missing Federal witness, and the search for
“the book”—a journal of pre-World War II mobsters and spies still operating in
Washington D.C. He’ll also begin to understand that his being a dead detective
isn’t by chance.
I thought I was overdue to give you an update on life in my
new world. It’s been a tough couple months and so much has been happening that
I couldn’t find the time to blog this out. Now I will.
Between readying for the release of Dying to Know and the demands of my real life—a security consultant
for a research and development center providing anti-terrorism support to the
U.S. Government—there hasn’t been any time to begin my third book in Tuck’s
series, Dying to Tell. Until
yesterday. I sat down and wrote like a mad-man, and if all goes well, I’ll have
10,000 words by late evening tonight.
Dying to Tell will
be Tuck’s third case and will bring him face to face with his long-lost family
and roots. The murder of a prominent banker will shake up Winchester after
seedy dealings, black marketing, and World War II profiteering are unmasked.
Tuck will have to sort out a seventy-year old string of killings and stolen
Egyptian antiquities and murders from all the way back to 1942. All the while,
Tuck will be dealing with the revelations of his own past and trying to sort
out who of his ancestors are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
To combat my total lack of experience in the book world, I’ve
recently engaged a public relations guru from Tennessee to help me get some
press and attention to Dying to Know.
This is all new to me, too. I’m not used to being a client. I’m used to having
clients. But Maryglenn has been gentle with me and is doing great so far. She’s
been working on guest blogs and interviews, scheduled several posts coming up
in January and the weeks beyond, and will be sending my novel out to key
critics around the country trying to gin up some interest. I’ll provide a list of
those blogs and interviews at the end of this update for anyone interested.
With all that is going on, I’m finding that the biggest
mystery I have to solve is how to navigate in this new world of mine. There are
book signings to figure out, Google advertisements to plan, blogs here and
there, public relations, and wrangling time to sit down and write. And of
course, there’s the January book launch cocktail party to plan. It was simpler
chasing bad guys for a living. Who knew?
One final thought. I may sound like I’m complaining about
time, juggling real work with writing, and the thousand new things to learn—I’m
not. I’m incredibly thankful for what’s happening. I’ve been working toward
this my entire life and never really thought it would happen. Suddenly, it’s
thirty days away. I know it could be the shortest writing career in history or
it could open a door to something else. I have no idea—but either way, life has
changed dramatically. But what I do know is that I didn’t get here by being
timid or afraid to jump in with both feet. Timid has never been a word used to
describe me. And those that have been used, well, should not be printed here.
Or anywhere. Or whispered. Or repeated…
All the best to you all for Christmas and the holidays. I’ll
keep you posted when there’s something to say. Until then, remember—if you all
buy 100 books each, and all your friends by 100 books each, Dying to Know might come close to a
bestseller. Think about it.
Inkspots: 10/18/2013—Dying is overrated… Writing in the first
person while you are dead—
http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com/2013/10/dying-is-overrated-writing-in-first.html
Inkspots: 11/15/2013—Facts
Build Good Fiction—The Truths Behind Dying to Know—
http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com/2013/11/facts-build-good-fictionthe-truths.htmlNotes from Me—Dru Ann Love: 1/6/2014—A Day in the Life—err, death—of Oliver Tucker—
http://notesfromme.wordpress.com/category/a-day-in-the-life/
Coming in January…
Assorted
blogs and interviews with Marshal Zeringue:Omnimystery Websites— My interview— http://www.omnimystery.com/omnimystery.html
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