by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jul 15, 2023 | One Writer's Journey
The first book I read by Sue Grafton was G is for Gumshoe. That was sometime in the mid 1990s and I’d picked it up at a flea market while vacationing in Collingwood, Ontario. I was immediately hooked by Grafton’s feisty female PI and the Santa Teresa,...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jul 8, 2023 | Let's Talk About Writing, One Writer's Journey
A warm welcome back to Susan Van Kirk, who candidly discusses her writing path, then and now. Take it away, Susan! My first attempt at writing mysteries began with the Endurance Mysteries—four novels and one novella so far. I’ve been happily visiting the town of...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jul 1, 2023 | One Writer's Journey
My parents were European immigrants, my father originally from Apatin, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and my mother from Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). They both moved to Nottingham, England, after the war, their respective towns no longer standing, and most of...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jun 17, 2023 | Authors Talk, One Writer's Journey
Welcome back Lois Winston, with a fabulous post on perseverance. We can all learn from her lessons! Several years ago, I saw The Play that Goes Wrong. The play-within-a-play is about a production of Murder at Haversham Manor, an Agatha Christie type murder mystery...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | May 20, 2023 | Authors Talk, One Writer's Journey
A warm welcome to Mike Martin, author of the award-winning Sgt. Windflower Mystery series. I write a light mystery series, the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series. Although I have to confess two things. One is that I never knew I was going to write a series. I just wanted...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | May 13, 2023 | One Writer's Journey
I’m an avid reader (21 books so far this year), as well as a fairly recent convert to audiobooks, where I’ve been revisiting (with pleasure) the late Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone “Alphabet” series. I’ve tried to listen to them in...
