Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Books on Writing: Setting Writing Goals, Developing Better Habits, and Giving up on Perfection
A break from crime fiction today to talk about writing goals. I tend to do better with five- or ten-year goals than with New Year’s resolutions. A year is a brief period of time in which to accomplish anything of note, but it is a decent time-frame for changing habits. And that’s what I did…
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Nancy Drew Enters the Public Domain
Ninety-five years after their original publication, the first four Nancy Drew novels (all published in 1930) have just entered the public domain in the United States. Without having glanced at them in more than four decades, I can still picture all of the covers and conjure up some plot details from The Secret of the…
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Jane Austen’s Emma as a Mystery Novel
As we shift into the New Year (happy January 1!), a reminder that 2025 was a year of Austen tributes. Here’s my own belated contribution. Austen has been of central importance in my life. My closest friend from high school and I remain united in significant part through our love of Austen, a passion which…
