WORKING VACATION by Rob Lopresti So we went on a week’s vacation and, as I wrote here, my plan was to spend as much time as possible writing. I have a full-time job and I am a slow writer, so this was a precious opportunity to get some time in on what Rex Stout once […]

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 […]

SHIKARI, RATTLE, AND ROLL by James Lincoln Warren I have been asked by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, to make a podcast recording of my story “Shikari”, which I wrote specifically for their annual Sherlock Holmes tribute, the next of which will be the February 2012 issue. (I should mention that although […]