BLOGGING SHOES by Melodie Johnson Howe I’m hanging up my blogging shoes after this last column for Criminal Brief. Leigh very kindly asked if I would guest blog at the new Sleuth Sayers. Guys, could you come with up a name that doesn’t make me sound like Daffy Duck when I pronounce it? By the […]

WHAT DO MEN & WOMEN WANT? by Melodie Johnson Howe This fall NBC is bringing back The Playboy Club (ergo young sexy Playboy Bunnies) in a new series. Another channel is bringing back the now defunct airline Pan Am (ergo the young, sexy, “come fly with me” stewardesses of the sixties) in a series. What […]

BLOG, BLOG, BLOG by Melodie Johnson Howe To see this video in full size, click here. Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog. Do you think I’m having a problem coming up with an idea for this column? Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, […]

DON’T CLONE ME, BRO! by Melodie Johnson Howe Yesterday morning as I was pouring 1% organic milk into my coffee, I asked Bones if he would have me cloned. Without looking up from his Investor’s Daily Newspaper, he said, “No.” Then he paused, put his paper down, faced me, and said, “What?” “Would you have […]

THE LETTER A by Melodie Johnson Howe In The Scarlet Letter, the character Hester Prynne is burdened and shamed by the letter A. But at least she got a little nookie on the side, (as much as Hawthorn and the puritans allowed her) to earn her adulteress label. I too am burdened by that notorious […]

MRS. DALLOWAY AND STARBUCKS by Melodie Johnson Howe Excerpt from the manuscript of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf I left Bones copy editing the first half of my novel and drove to Kathleen Sharp’s house. He had not read much of the book and I was worried about his reaction. Kathleen and I walked to […]

BYE-BYE BORDERS by Melodie Johnson Howe Borders is liquidating. Barnes & Noble survived, but not without closing down many of its stores. You could say B & N saw the future of eBooks and Borders didn’t. I remember the outcry when Borders first opened. This was the wholesaling of books, this was going to ruin […]