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...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Apr 22, 2023 | One Writer's Journey
This past Thursday, April 20th, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence announced their 2023 shortlist. As past Chair of CWC, not to mention an avid reader, many of the names on the list were familiar to me. One of those was MH Callway, whose excellent short...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Apr 15, 2023 | One Writer's Journey, The Case of
It’s happened to everyone at one time or another: the bad haircut. And recently, hoping to (finally) get new author photos taken (the one included here was taken in 2019 and the one on my home page was taken in 2015), the bad haircut happened to me. Oh,...
