By Tracy Clark Hiya! Well, another Bouchercon is in the history books. This year’s Bouchercon, the world’s premier mystery conference and heck of a good time, was held in sunny San Diego, and 1,700 mystery and crime readers, writers, editors, agents, booksellers, and those who love them, came out...
DISPATCH FROM THE CAVE
No Excuses Accepted By Tracy Clark I don’t have anything interesting to write about this time. You see, I’ve been living in a cave, figuratively not literally, for months now. Nose to the grindstone. Shoulder to the wheel. All that jazz. I have a book to finish. A deadline looming. Writing....
MY BRUSH WITH GREATNESS
I'm Still Smiling By Tracy Clark When I was a kid, I often thought how cool it would be if Topps made author trading cards like they made all those ho-hum baseball ones. I would have loved to have opened a pack of Topps to find a small sheet of chewing gum and a cardboard card with Agatha...
THE TALE OF TWO TRIPS TO TUCSON
By Tracy Clark It’s conference season, that busy time of year for writers when they come together with readers and their writing community and celebrate books and writing. It’s like Oscar season, only without Wolfgang Puck’s mini-sliders and that pre-ceremony full-body shellacking Hollywood...
NOTHING SUBTLE ABOUT A BOOK LAUNCH
By Tracy Clark I just launched my fifth book, Hide. Yay! It’s a busy time. Stuff’s happening fast and furious. But in a rare quiet moment, I got to wondering. Why book launch? Why not book introduction, or book premiere? I’ll admit launch is snappier than book introduction, but it also sounds and...
BREAKING IN A NEW PAIR OF SHOES
By Tracy Clark I've had a heck of a time writing lately. Shirtsleeves up. Eyes on my laptop. Fingers on the keyboard. Digging for diamonds like those seven little Disney guys. I started a new crime series. And I’m a pantser. Feel me? This means I started with zip, which is fine. I always start...
Characters That Keep It Real
by Tracy Clark I just gave my first author presentations on craft, one on writing settings and one on building book people (characters). I think I did okay. I hope I did. But I’m a writer, not Mr. Chips, so things might have been a little, you know, shaky. I put the presentation together (with...
ROGUE FLASH — ROGUE FINALIST FOR A SHAMUS AWARD
Congratulations are in order once again for Rogue Tracy Clark! Her 2021 novel Runner has been named a finalist for the Shamus Award in the Best PI Hardcover category. A winner will be chosen from the five nominees in August, check in with Private Eye Writers of America to see the full list of...
ROGUE FLASH – CONGRATS TO OUR ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEES!
TWO of our Rogues are finalists in this year’s Anthony Awards!
MY OLD FRIEND, HARRIET THE SPY
by Tracy Clark Recently, I was moving an overstuffed bookcase from one side of my den to the other to make room for a new recumbent bike that I had convinced myself at time of purchase that I would use a lot, and not just as a hook for my jackets, which the elliptical machine next to it had...