BIO MECHANICS by John M. Floyd Easy question: when is talking about yourself not fun? Answer: when you’re writing a bio. What’s a bio? That’s easy too: if you’re an author, it’s a brief summary of you, your background, and your writing credits. It might include a list of previous publications and awards, and (occasionally) […]
SOLEMN VOWS? by Steven Steinbock Elaine Viets revealed a new side of herself to me this week. Anyone who knows Elaine knows that she’s wonderfully nuts. Her “Dead-End Jobs” series is a good indication of it. In order to do the research for every dead-end job her heroine Helen Hawthorn has taken, Elaine has tried […]
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT ME? by Deborah Elliott-Upton Summer elbowed my favorite season out of the way and it was too hot to want to be anywhere except in a pool or in front of an air conditioner. My family abandoned me for the week with pursuits of their own out-of-state and out-of-country and I […]