Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, with a question. Have you ever looked back on your life and realized how different things might have been if, at a certain point in time, you had made a different choice about your future? For me, that defining moment was almost exactly fifty years ago. In the fall of…
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, assuming you're tired of hearing about the new book (Death of an Intelligence Gatherer, just in case you've forgotten). Don't worry, I'll plug that one and others again. In the meantime, I thought I'd bring you up to date on what else I've been up to. First you have to…
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today writing as Kathy. It was just last month that I posted about trying to decide whether to create print-on-demand editions of two of my older nonfiction books, The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England 1485-1649 and How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries. Both have been available as…
Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Monday), Kate Flora (Thursday), and Brenda Buchanan (Friday). Happy Fourth of July everyone! In the news department, here's what's happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine Crime Writers: from Kathy Lynn Emerson: Yesterday was the release…