Patricia Stoltey

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Have you ever seen a fox on a fence?

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I sure hadn’t, so when we spotted this fox in our yard earlier this year, I grabbed my camera and caught a photo before he got away. I’m not sure what he was hoping to find. Katie Kitten was safely inside the house, and that pathetic dried up apple didn’t look very appetizing. And that’s …Read More

Crime Writers and Research: Learning About Touch DNA

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My guest post, Crime Writers and Research: Learning About Touch DNA, has been posted at Joe Giacalone’s The Cold Case Squad blog. I use information about two well-known Colorado cases to show how crime writers have an enormous amount of information at their fingertips (or keyboards) for researching the technology that makes our stories accurate …Read More

Wednesday Scramble

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Tomorrow…I don’t have a guest tomorrow, because I’ve submitted a guest post to Joe Giacalone’s blog, The Cold Case Squad, on what I learned about Touch DNA while researching the process for a new story. I’ll post the link here when it goes live. First NaNoWriMo Report Here it is, already Day Two of National …Read More

A Thousand Words, at Least… by Ann Parker, Guest Blogger

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I’m very pleased that Ann Parker agreed to do a guest post for us. Ann is a California-based science/corporate writer by day and an historical mystery writer by night. Her award-winning Silver Rush series, featuring saloon-owner Inez Stannert, is set in 1880s Colorado, primarily in the silver-mining boom town of Leadville. It shouldn’t be a …Read More

Halloween Hop and Giveaways

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First the Giveaways Northern Colorado Writers director Kerrie Flanagan is giving away one copy of the 2012 Guide to Literary Agents at The Writing Bug blog. The deadline to enter is Saturday, October 29th, at noon Mountain Time. Sarah Johnson is giving away a copy of Michelle Black’s mystery, Seance in Sepia, at Reading the …Read More

C. C. Harrison’s Quick and Easy Way to Cook a Book

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My guest today is C. C. Harrison, author of hundreds of articles and short stories as well as novels. When she’s not writing, reading, or working out at the gym, she can be found in the mountains of Colorado or in some far-flung corner of the Southwest. She currently lives in Arizona, the setting for …Read More

Wednesday Scramble

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NaNoWriMo Just six days left to organize my life so I can churn out those 50,000 words in November. Many of my posts will be short, but I’ll still have some great guest bloggers this month. Historical mystery writer Ann Parker will be my guest on Monday. The Cold Case Squad blogI’m also making a …Read More

Chiseled in Rock Tuesday: Thoughts on Halloween

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I’m sure you want to know exactly what I think of Halloween, so follow me on over to Chiseled in Rock blog (and be sure to watch the very short video clip I found on You Tube to illustrate my point).