Kate Flora: Over the years, I accumulated quite a library of reference books related to writing, to crime writing in particular, and to crime investigations of all sorts. I never stop acquiring books that someone I regard as credible has suggested. This week I added The Bestseller Code: anatomy of a blockbuster novel. I usually…
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Like many of my fellow writers, I've recently been able to check a data base to find out if any of my books were used to "train" artificial intelligence to, essentially, replace live writers. Am I overstating that? I don't think so. Neither do the screenwriters recently on strike, or…
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Malice Domestic, a gathering of mystery readers and writers, has just wrapped up its thirty-fifth conference in Bethesda, Maryland. Although I would encourage anyone who writes mysteries, especially in the traditional and cozy genres, to attend, I was not there this year, nor have I been since 2019. The two…