MURDER MYSTERY NEWS by Leigh Lundin Following are a couple of news items that caught my attention, relating to mystery, murder, mayhem, and heroism. 23 October 2007 – The Heroes The heroes are Qemal Agaj of Albania and Fred Hunt of Berwick, Maine, who were swimming off Cocoa Beach, Florida. They saw a 68 year […]

Y CANADA by Leigh Lundin Occasionally, I sit in on a monthly literary gathering run by Liz Ruch at the Morse Museum‘s Pavilion. They like to like Southern writers, but they love Canadian writers, including Ann-Marie MacDonald and Mary Lawson, just to name two. Talk at Tuesday’s meeting brought to mind a small college north […]

beATTITUDES: ASPIRATION to INSPIRATION by Leigh Lundin TheMysteryPlace.com is the web site of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock, and within it resides a section called the Readers Forum, which just as easily have been called the Writers Forum. One of the posts asked the question, When should a writer give up? In the thread that […]

An ADD SUNDAY by Leigh Lundin “Craig’s decision to stay in the Senate means exposing himself to a full Ethics Committee investigation into his conduct.” This quotation from the Idaho Statesman came to my attention through writer Michael Murphy. Writers enjoy catching unintended witticisms and of course Jay Leno has made a regular segment out […]

The MOBILE NOVEL by Leigh Lundin The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday 26 September 2007… I was sitting in a lawyer’s anteroom reading the WSJ and below the fold was a front page story titled Ring! Ring! Ring! In Japan, Novelists Find a New Medium. ‘Medium’ in this case refered to mass communication, not the contact […]

The POWER of PREPOSITIONS by Leigh Lundin Aladdin was getting along in years and found that he was unable to pitch a tent as he had done in his youth. Smart as well as lucky, Aladdin still had his genie in a lamp and, frugal with his wishes, he had one wish left. He rubbed […]

PERILS of PUBLISHING by Leigh Lundin The printing side of the business I have a passing familiarity with and I’m gaining familiarity with the writing side. Actual publishing remains a mystery to me, and from time to time I try to take a peek under the covers, so to speak. It was with some horror, […]