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Chiseled in Rock Tuesday: Writing (and Deleting) the Memory Dump

July 12, 2011 By: Patricia

I’m over at Chiseled in Rock today with a post about one of the difficulties I experienced with the writing of The Prairie Grass Murders. If your book is set in your home town, you’ll need to watch out for the memory dump.

While you’re there, you might want to check out yesterday’s interview with Grand Central Publishing Assistant Editor, Latoya Smith. Smith will be one of the editors taking pitches at the RMFW Colorado Gold Conference in Denver in September.

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  1. Dean K Miller says

    July 12, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    A timely blog for me to read as I dumped and deleted my writing email inbox this morning. Not too much major damage, but I know there’s a couple things floating out there I would like to get back.

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I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read More…

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