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Indifferent City available for pre-order
Prohibition. Thirteen years when America went dry. Blind-pigs were filled with rotgut and devious grifters, when Presidents served illegal wine at state dinners and women kicked aside their historical traces. Where the only difference between the cops and the criminals … Continue reading
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Tagged bootleggers, crime, crime novels, flappers, GK Parker, historical fiction, LAPD, Los Angeles, member pubs, noir, Prohibition, speakeasies, suspense
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Disneyland for Crime Writers: 2015 Writer’s Police Academy
The WPA has been going on now for several years. I was lucky enough to go 3 years ago in North Carolina. It’s moving this year to the Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI, an actual training academy. It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, EMS, lee lofland, PIT maneuvers, police, Simunition, WPA, writer's police academy
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Writing Contests
Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press has just opened its annual contest. This year we have two new contests, in addition to our Dark Oak Mystery contest: Mystic Oaks Paranormal and something we are calling “Police Blotter.” This can be fiction or non-fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, contests, crime, crime novels, critique, critique my novel, editing, oak tree books, oaktree
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Firearms for Writers
Most of what you see on TV or in the movies about guns and the people who use them is wrong. If you use firearms in you writing, and you’d like to be more accurate then this might be the class … Continue reading
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Tagged class, cops, course, crime, criminals, firearms, guns, revolver, semi-automatic
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Free Webinar How to Catch a Poisoner
How did scientists develop the ability to detect toxins in a body? Tune in LIVE as Deborah Blum, Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and author of “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, tells the remarkable story of the two scientists who invented forensic … Continue reading
Getting Grilled
I get dragged into the interrogation room by LAPD officer Kathy Bennett (ret) and she rakes me over the coals. http://www.kathybennett.com/guestAuthors.aspx
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Tagged authors, Brown, confession, crime, crime fiction, crime novels, interrogation, LAPD, police, writing
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Contest for Canadian Crime Writers
Canada Writes is part of CBC and this month has partnered with the Crime Writers of Canada to present a whole 31 days of mystery, murder and mayhem. This includes the Page Turner Challenge for Canadian crime writers In 250 words (or less), … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada Writes, CBC, contests, crime, Crime Writers of Canada
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DUTTON NOIR accepting submissions for ebooks
Dutton is an imprint of Penguin Group, US To commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of Dutton’s publication of I, The Jury (1947), Dutton is relaunching the Guilt Edged Mysteries program in Summer 2012 as a digital imprint. The program will be dedicated to … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, dutton, fiction, noir, penguin group, sub, submissions
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