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- Potty Mouth — 14 comments
- YOU’RE TRASH! Sift Through Some Garbage and Find Your Real Character — 9 comments
- Bad Boys–Watcha Gonna Do — 4 comments
Victoria Wright
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Apr 14
Potty Mouth
Last November, one of my favorite cozy mystery authors, Ali Brandon, who writes the Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries series, blogged about her characters’ reluctance to use bathrooms. (Check out her blog here.) If you think about it, you don’t read about characters using the facilities. You don’t see this often on TV either. I mean …
Mar 14
YOU’RE TRASH! Sift Through Some Garbage and Find Your Real Character
Something I almost never read about in the cozy mysteries I love so much is trash. Refuse. The detritus of human life. Lots of my favorite series deal with cooking, pets, books, bookstores, libraries, and crafting, but none of the characters spend time throwing stuff out. Most of my favorite authors would probably say that’s …
Feb 14
Bad Boys–Watcha Gonna Do
What is it about bad boys? Those loveable scamps who are utterly irredeemable but still attract us because their badness is so much more interesting than the good guy’s goodness. You can count on the hero to do the right thing because he’s the hero. You can count on the bad boy to be bad. …