Time to Shed the Fleece and Star Schmoozing: a guest blog by Brenda Buchanan
Julia Spencer-Fleming here, with a guest post by my friend, fellow law-school classmate, and writing aficionado Brenda Buchanan. Are you a writer – published or unpublished – living in Maine? Have you...
View ArticleThis Summer, in Maine, I’m Going To . . .
Kate Flora here, sitting for the third rainy day in an icy cold house, thinking about summer in Maine. While I hate the term “bucket list,” each summer I find myself making lists of things that I don’t...
View ArticleCrime Writing Workshops in Maine – a guest post by MWPA Executive Director...
Joshua Bodwell is the Executive Director of the non-profit Maine Writers and Publisher’s Alliance, whose mission is to enrich the cultural life of Maine by supporting writers, publishers, and the...
View ArticleCash Mob for Longfellow Books
There is little writers love more than their local bookstores. For many of us in Maine, one of our favorite “locals,” no matter where in the state we live, is Longfellow Books in Portland. Long a vital...
View ArticleDreaming
My brother John and I selling eggs by the roadside When I was growing up on a chicken farm in a small Maine town, money was often tight. Bill collectors really did knock on the door, sometimes the...
View ArticleEeyore Works the Room
Kate Flora here, musing on a conversation I had with my husband on Saturday while we were driving on the Maine Turnpike. We seem to have some of our best conversations in the car, probably because...
View ArticleLearning to Juggle
Having just won the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Redemption Kate Flora, here, reporting in from my desk, where I’m trying to set priorities and get my homework done. I will start out by stating that...
View ArticleJanet Morgan discusses her new book “Katahdin Drowning”
(Janet Morgan will be speaking at the Wiscasset Public Libarary this coming Thursday at 7:00) Do Ghosts Haunt Me? Janet Morgan In my last post, which was during National Library Week, I talked about...
View ArticleAnd A Good Time Was Had By All
Kate Flora here. It’s not my day to blog, but today’s scheduled blogger is lost in a sea of confusion. Not surprising. This weekend, many of your friendly neighborhood Maine Crime Writers were...
View ArticleWeekend Update: November 15-16, 2014
Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by John Clark (Monday), Sarah Graves (Tuesday), Kate Flora (Wednesday), Kaitlyn Dunnett (Thursday), and Vicki Doudera (Friday). In the news...
View ArticleWeekend Update: June 27-28, 2015
Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Lea Wait (Monday), Barb Ross (Tuesday), Kate Flora (Thursday) and John Clark (Friday), with a special group post on Wednesday. In the news...
View ArticleYou wonder where Maine writers work, don’t you?
With apologies for accidentally posting this on the wrong day…here we go again. Here are some snapshots of where we work. Our desks, our dining tables, our porches, and perhaps some surprises. Kate...
View ArticleSo, this happened . . .
Kathy Lynn Emerson/Kaitlyn Dunnett here. There are many times in a writer’s life when something unexpected happens. On average, these are good experiences. One of the best of my career happened last...
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