Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...

by Kathy Waller I wrote the following for my personal blog to answer a “challenge.” I intended to post it at the end of September...

by Kathy Waller I said to my critique partner this morning, The whole project is stinky it stinks it’s fatally flawed just nothing no...

by Kathy Waller The definition of reading readiness is the point at which a child goes from not reading, to reading. ~ Sight and Sound...

by Kathy Waller George Woodstock received the peculiar phone call on his sixty-sixth birthday. . . He let the phone ring twice, then...

by Kathy Waller The summer  I was six, my cousin of the same age was visiting our spinster great-aunt and bachelor uncle who lived up the...

by Kathy Waller I’m thinking it over. Jack Benny A curse on this week’s post. I banged out nearly 2,000 words that should have been...

by Kathy Waller Today is Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, when we remember the men and women of the military to whom we cannot say,...

I’m working on a mystery novel—I’ve been working on it for years, but now I’m working on it—and am faced with dilemmas too numerous to...

by Kathy Waller I was preparing an update to my January 25 post about resolving to read all forty-seven of Anthony Trollope’s novels in...

by Kathy Waller “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” ~ Mark Twain (or...

by Kathy Waller “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them....

* The first few years I studied Romeo and Juliet with my high school freshmen, when I was in my The way Juliet’s father tells her to...

I was writing a book review when Lark Rise to Candleford, a television series I had running in the background as a helpful distraction,...

by Kathy Waller So you start writing your post about the incomparable Josephine Tey’s mystery novels two weeks before it’s due but...