I LOVE DOING RESEARCH
By Chris Goff I love doing research. When I’m in the throes of writing a book, I spend a lot of time going down various rabbit holes. Some may say too much time. And I dig up all sorts of interesting shi…. information. Take my current work-in-progress, Operation Gentoo. The story starts out in...
MAY ROGUE ROUNDUP
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in May... We began May in the child's palace of the mind: the local library. Jenny Milchman called upon us to revisit our fond memories and tell us how as an adult she enjoys conservation of these sacred spaces in On...
IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH US?
By Lisa Black Last week a large group of people traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida, and checked into a large Hilton with marble floors and pricey valet parking. Did they walk across the street and catch a soccer game or a concert at the Al Lang Stadium? Walk a couple hundred feet to the Dali...
ROGUE REELS: Dr. Tess Gerritsen reads from The Summer Guests
Dr. Tess Gerritsen is a Stanford grad whose 31 novels have sold 40 million copies around the world and won numerous awards. She is also a screenwriter and filmmaker and the TV show Rizzoli and Isles, based on her novels, ran for seven seasons. In her new book, The Summer Guests, ex-spy Maggie Bird...
ON TOUR WITH DEAD WRITERS: The Canal Zone
By Z.J. Czupor ZJ Czupor's On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month. From the correct responses, one will be randomly drawn to...
ON CHILDHOOD & BOOK PALACES
By Jenny Milchman When I was a young girl I read Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and dreamed of flowers on the Yorkshire moors. I read Jane Eyre cloaked by the curtains in my girlhood home and felt them as heavy and dusty window dressings from Mr. Rochester's mansion. Books have been...
APRIL ROGUE ROUNDUP
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in April... April began with a visit from Extraordinary Guest Author, Tori Eldridge who told us of how she struggled to write of her native Hawaii and the joy she found once she did in Coming Home with Kaua‘i Storm....
MUSIC AS THE WRITER’S MUSE
By Karna Bodman Have you ever heard a song that inspired you to write a story or a poem? I know I have. Shakespeare once wrote, “If music be the food of love, play on.” It is said that Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce were also inspired by music when they wrote some of their most famous tales. ...
