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Who Doesn’t Love a Good Con, Author’s Edition Rob Kelley here, sharing one of the weirder experiences of becoming a published author. As everyone knows (because I keep telling everyone, repeatedly), my debut novel Raven hit the streets at the …

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A Simple, Hard Truth and A Giveaway Snakeberry: The Best New England Crime Writing came out earlier this month and I’m going a giveaway to celebrate! Snakeberry is a great anthology, a labor of love, put out every year in celeb…

Gabriella's powerful story at MCW.
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Zohran Mamdani defends DEI alongside Al Sharpton at civil rights event New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani defended diversity, equity and inclusion policies that President Donald Trump has targeted for elimination.

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On the way to revenge Sepha's Surprising reaction

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Dreams vs. Reality ... and Sometimes the Twain Shall Meet (Mary Strand) This month at YA Outside the Lines, we're talking about dream jobs vs. Plan B, or what you might call reality. I didn't work in high schoo...

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The Kittens Who Came in from the Cold Alissa Grosso

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Writing Tip Wednesday: It’s All About Theme Writing Tip Wednesday: It’s All About Theme Hello and happy Writing Tip Wednesday! I’m fresh off Crime Bake 2025 — and I’ll wax poetic about that tomorrow. But for today, I want to talk about theme…

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I respected Angus until this, but never again!

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Yoga & Writing I just finished a grueling ninety minutes of hot yoga. After a relaxing shower, I feel much better about writing this blog post. My mind and body is relaxed and calm, and I feel like I did somethin…

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Crime Bake Photos! I could not resist the temptation to put up this quick Monday night post with some photos of MCW bloggers at Crime Bake last weekend. As you probably can tell from the photos, a great time was had …

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They, Them, Ze, Zir and You Guys Blog Nov 2025.   Jule Selbo INFO on FREE BOOKS at the end of the BLOG, you guys! Hey, you guys. This is a relatively ‘old’ scholarly reflection (the topic became kind of big in the early 2000s), bu…

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Democracy…Some Assembly Still Required John Clark taking you inside an election. On Tuesday, I served as a ballot clerk for the fifth time. While it was an off-year election, voting was steady and the numbers higher than usual, somethin…

My turn to blog on Maine Crime Writers today.
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Crime Bake Preview: Honoring Barb Ross and Launching Snakeberry The New England Crime Bake will take place this weekend, and I can’t wait. The ‘Bake is the annual gathering of crime writers and readers from across the region held each November outside of Boston…

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Is it time to start calling it the Offal Office?

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Writing Tip Wednesday: Putting a dog in the book? Pros & cons There’s some sage — or not so much — writing advice that if you want to make a character likable, give him a dog. On the other hand, once you give a character a dog, if it’s…

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Early voting results in Maine have No on one and Yes on two with slightly over 60% of the vote. we had a significantly larger turnout in Waterville where I was a ballot clerk.

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Working at the Waterville election at Thomas College as a ballot clerk today. Fifth election I've done so since we moved to Waterville.

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Introducing the Big Book of Romance Kate Flora: I’m excited to have a story in this collection. Here’s the cover and an interview the editor did. Actually, she gave a list of about 30 questions, said answer five, and I, i…

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A Few Thoughts Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Fair warning—I’m in a grumpy mood. Did you ever have one of those days when nothing goes right? They seem to happen more and more often as I age, and …

Getting older? Read this. mainecrimewriters.com/2025/11/03/a...

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The Importance of Young Adults Disconnecting from Electronics and Reconnecting with Nature and Themselves (Guest Post by Claudia Daher, Author of R.A.T.S)) In today’s fast-paced digital world, young adults live surrounded by screens. Phones, computers, and social media have become central to our...

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Parental Figures - On and Off the Page (Laurie Faria Stolarz) The topic for this month is parents. What weight do they hold in our creative writing?  For the most part, until only recently, parental f...

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Mother, what have you done? (Brian Katcher) Ah, parents. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. No, you literally can't. Basic biology. But when you're writing about teenagers,...

A man with my sense of humor speaks.
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Maine kids aren't fooled.
78 schools voted in a Tuesday mock primary. 29 schools,comprising more than 4,000 students, reporting results so far.
Question 1 was defeated with about 65% voting no and 35% voting yes.
Question 2 was passed with almost 80% voting yes and 20% voting against it.

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The Life of a Bookmark First, thank you to the Maine Crime Writers blog for inviting me into the fold. I have been reading this blog from the moment I learned of it at the New England Crime Bake conference, many years ag…

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Humor Me Got the chance to spend some time in an old stomping ground of Portland, Oregon this month and beyond the chance to spend time with the many longstanding friends we’ve missed for some years, we wer…

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The Gentle Muse By Kait Carson Writers are famous for their love of animals. There’s John Steinbeck and Charley. Not every dog goes on a field trip with his owner and returns immortalized in print and film. E. B. …

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About Parents Present and Absent in YA Literature by Patty Blount This month's topic is parents... It got me thinking about how literally every Disney movie ever has dead parents or the "evil" step-family....

Patty Blount's thoughtful take on our theme at YAOTL this month.
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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner opens up about Nazi-linked tattoo claims Platner spoke about his tattoo resembling the “Totenkopf” on a podcast after opposition research revealed some might use it to link him to Nazis.

If you are perturbed by the tattoo controversy surrounding Maine senate Candidate Graham Platner, I encourage you to read this from Ch. 5 in Bangor.
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If it works, don't fix it.

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