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The Future Imperfect

I’ll be honest with you. I am afraid of what is to come. I listen to long-dead voices, and I am afraid.

Mar 18

The Future Imperfect

Mar 18

Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid!

Halloween has come and gone, but it’s left me with some things to think about. Mostly, to be honest, I’ve been thinking about fear.

Nov 12, 2024

Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid!

Nov 12, 2024

Can fiction make a difference?

One of the joys of reading is the opportunity to live alongside someone else for a time.

Nov 8, 2024

Can fiction make a difference?

Nov 8, 2024

Murder Most Ladylike

That low hum is always there in the background; but when we read or write crime fiction, we can explore our fear safely…

Oct 23, 2024

Murder Most Ladylike

Oct 23, 2024

The Beginning isn’t the Beginning

A lot of mystery readers will tell you they don’t care about history.

Oct 14, 2024

The Beginning isn’t the Beginning

Oct 14, 2024

On The Joys of the Obscure

Find that juxtaposition of the weird and the wonderful. I will love reading about you.

Feb 24, 2024

On The Joys of the Obscure

Feb 24, 2024

It’s All About the Fantasy

It’s no secret that I write about that most terrible of crimes — murder — for fun and profit.

Mar 18, 2023

It’s All About the Fantasy

Mar 18, 2023

Writer’s Block as Liminal Space

It is transitional and transformative; it halts you on the threshold and forces you to take stock, to take a breath, to take a chance.

Mar 12, 2023

Writer’s Block as Liminal Space

Mar 12, 2023

Will Technology Leave Readers Behind? Not if Writers Can Help It!

As writers, one of our obligations, I think, is to be the vehicle that enables readers to ask these questions in a safe fictional space.

Feb 15, 2023

Will Technology Leave Readers Behind? Not if Writers Can Help It!

Feb 15, 2023

What’s in a Murder Mystery, Anyway?

My favorite genre, whether reading or writing, is mystery. There’s something that’s intellectually and morally satisfying …

Jan 18, 2023

What’s in a Murder Mystery, Anyway?

Jan 18, 2023

Why Women Like Murder Mysteries

Both as readers and as writers, we’re turning to crime… the crime of choice being, of course, murder.

Jan 10, 2023

Why Women Like Murder Mysteries

Jan 10, 2023

How Long is a Novel?

So you have a 200,000 word manuscript you want to sell to a publisher. What’s an author to do?

Jan 5, 2023

How Long is a Novel?

Jan 5, 2023

Be The Best Answer: Four Steps to Developing Winning Content

You’ll never be the only answer, but you can be the best answer for the prospects and clients you’re marketing to.

May 23, 2022

Be The Best Answer: Four Steps to Developing Winning Content

May 23, 2022

Why is the Sidekick the Most Difficult Character to Create?

“Supportive” doesn’t mean becoming a yes-person: sidekicks can show support by challenging the protagonist.

Apr 10, 2022

Why is the Sidekick the Most Difficult Character to Create?

Apr 10, 2022

Fictional Deaths and Real Funerals

We live in these fictional worlds where justice always triumphs and the case is always successfully closed…

Apr 1, 2022

Fictional Deaths and Real Funerals

Apr 1, 2022

Improve Your Presentations — and Sell More Books!

Whether you’re in a room with five audience members or on a Zoom event with hundreds of them, there are a few considerations that will help

Dec 9, 2021

Improve Your Presentations — and Sell More Books!

Dec 9, 2021

Hire an Editor, But Do This First

All these ways of focusing will undoubtedly improve your novel — but there’s an added bonus: they will make you a better writer.

Nov 16, 2021

Hire an Editor, But Do This First

Nov 16, 2021

The Curmudgeons are Alright

I did it. I corrected his love letters. In red ink. And sent them back to him.

Oct 12, 2021

The Curmudgeons are Alright

Oct 12, 2021

What Does the True-Crime Writer Owe to the Living?

The more random the crime, the more we’re inclined to make sure our doors are locked and our urban pathways well-lit.

Jul 12, 2021

What Does the True-Crime Writer Owe to the Living?

Jul 12, 2021

How (and Why!) to Write a Multiple-Timeline Story

How can you tell a story that’s clearly best told with multiple timelines — and that keeps the reader’s attention equally throughout both?

May 30, 2021

How (and Why!) to Write a Multiple-Timeline Story

May 30, 2021

JeannettedeBeauvoir

JeannettedeBeauvoir

Bestselling novelist of mystery and historical fiction. Writer, editor, & business storyteller at jeannettedebeauvoir.com.

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