“Where do you get your ideas for a murder mystery?”

“Sometimes it’s just a pair of blue jeans on a country road. Where’s the body?”

Having lunch in Lambertville with Mystery writers of America, New York board president Nev March.

I can't find the post this is referring to and Bluesky doesn't link back to it. But good catch. Pubic libraries are quite something different.

Book Review: Poetry Picks for Poetry Month By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez Poetry Books by various authors c.2025, Penguin $18.99 – $20 various page counts A, B, B, A. That’s not only how you spell the name of a popular music group. T...

Book Review: Poetry Picks for Poetry Month. Reviewed by Terri Schlichenmeyer @bookwormsez.bsky.social #poetry #LGBTQ #booksky

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Meet the Members: Mark McNease (from the Mystery Writers of America/NY website). Yes, that's me!

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Happiness is conducting a new workshop. Encouraging the writer in others is my happy place. (Mark/board member MWA-NY).

Criminal Intent: Talking Motive in Philadelphia.

MWA members, mystery aficionados, and aspiring writers gathered on March 29 at the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia for “Motive: The Essence of Mystery,” a panel discussion moderated by MWA Board Member Douglas Harrell.

Great panel discussion (and audience questions!) on Saturday during @mwa-ny.bsky.social's "Motive: The Essence of Mystery" at the @freelibrary.bsky.social.

New items today! Stephen King has donated signed copies of Doctor Sleep and Full Dark, No Stars! Wow!

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Buy books.

I mean it.

Buy history books. Buy cultural anthropology books. Buy books about the lives of real women, people of color, non-Christians. Buy books by academics. Buy books critical of the first Trump administration.

But them and keep them because they may go out of print very soon.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! Saturday, March 29 at 12:30. @mwa-ny.bsky.social's #mystery writers panel at @freelibrary.bsky.social in Philadelphia. #booksky

I love how these flowers change position every day

Audio Interview: A Conversation with Author and Leon Burstein Award Runner-Up Christal Roberts

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Enjoy this conversation with Christal Roberts, author, dynamo, and Leon Burstein Award Runner-up (2024). #booksky @christalroberts.bsky.social @nevmarch.bsky.social

It Looks Like I’m a Teacher Now! Promo Material from Bristol, PA, Library (May 3 Fiction Writing). This program is offered by Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library in support of the PA Forward | Pennsylvania Libraries initiative. yourwritepath.com/2025/03/06/i... #booksky #writing #fiction

Who's keeping score? We are! Share your score in the comments below from our 'Famous First Lines' quiz. Take it at the MWA-NY website and see the results when you click 'submit.' #booksky #authors #mysteries

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February was a bumper reading month #booksky

The dog has the best seat in the house. #sundayshelfie #rescuedog #booksky

Modern libraries are my favorite place in the world.

I cannot believe the level of cool free stuff that's available now! I loved the library as a kid, but if I grew up with resources like these I probably would have lived there 😂

“It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
Aristotle

One of my favorite people and former librarians.

“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he wants.”

Socrates

If you work in the American tourism industry be prepared to bring a book to work because the world has no plans on visiting you.

Just got my official termination notice. I will be unemployed, thanks to DOGE, at the end of the week.

Things are going to be tough.

But!

I've got books available (and more to come). Also, I'd like to help on any of YOUR creative projects.

Need a writer? Editor? Sounding board? I'm your guy.

tfw you're writing a book set in 1923 and you wonder "is there a canal workers union and did they ever go on strike because I could really use that," and you look it up and there is and they went on strike in 1923.

The cover of THE RELUCTANT SHERIFF by Chris Offutt shows an abandoned red truck against a desolate background of mountains

Latest read (e-ARC) THE RELUCTANT SHERRIFF by Chris Offut - a Kentucky noir about a small town lawman with a violent past, it's like listening to a good friend tell a story over a glass of finest bourbon. This may be the first in the series I've read but it won't be the last. (Pub March by No Exit)