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Malice and Gardening
This weekend was Malice Domestic and the Agatha Awards. Malice Domestic is a conference celebrating traditional mysteries, cozies, and softer thrillers and noir novels. Malice has the reputation for being *only* for cozy mysteries, or viewing mysteries only through a cozy lens. But, really, it’s for every genre under the mystery umbrella. If you write…
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Creativity Returns
Last time we spoke, I was in a bit of a spiral. Part of that was because it was February. Part of it was the specific ways the world is fracturing under our feet. The world hasn’t gotten better. It’s still fracturing and things are still awful. (Who shares classified military information in an unsecured…
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Do Something
It’s easy to become immobilized when you have a buzz saw chopping through the very foundation of your country. The desire to doomscroll–to stayed glued to social media and other news sites so you can watch the horror in real time–to see if anything is changing for the better, or if the buzz saw is…
Mindy Carlson 