by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 18, 2016 | Interview with an Author
Colleen J. Shogan has been reading mysteries since the age of six. A political scientist by training, Colleen has taught American politics at Yale, George Mason University, Georgetown, and Penn. She previously worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative staffer in the...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 11, 2016 | Polls & Surveys
Recently, several members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society debated the best places to write. That discussion prompted me to create these polls: one for writers and one for readers; if you’re both, by all means vote in each poll, and have fun with it....
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 4, 2016 | Interview with an Author
Katherine Prairie, a geologist and IT specialist, stepped away from the international petroleum industry to follow her passion for writing. An avid traveler with an insatiable curiosity, you never know where you’ll find her next! But most days, she’s in Vancouver,...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 26, 2016 | My Publishing Journey
Several years before I even thought about writing a mystery novel, I took some creative writing classes. Inevitably the word count limit for the writing assignments would fall in the “flash fiction” category (typically fewer than 500 or 1,000 words,...