Submitted by Karna Small BodmanWe are delighted to welcome Ellen Crosby to the Rogue Limelight. She is a good friend and author of a terrific series of mysteries set in the Virginia wine country that include intriguing bits of history about the Founding Fathers paired with the search for...
THANKSGIVING TALES FROM WARTIME
by Gayle Lynds82nd Airborne, Forward Operating Base, Afghanistan, Thanksgiving 2007Years ago during the Vietnam War, I wanted to thank my friends fighting overseas by sending care packages of Thanksgiving cookies and pumpkin bread that I baked. It’d be a taste of home, I thought, and surely...
MARC CAMERON, NOVEMBER’S ROGUE RECOMMENDATION, GOES ROGUE…
by Chris GoffThe Rogues could not be more delighted than to hear from November's The Real Book Spy's ROGUE RECOMMENDATION. Marc Cameron, author of Tom Clancy Code of Honor shares what it was like to get "the call." You know, the one that every author waits for, when they're honored for a big...
Jon Land Goes Rogue – In the Rogue Limelight
Submitted by Karna Small BodmanOne of my all time favorite TV shows was MURDER SHE WROTE starring the wonderful actress Angela Lansbury as author and investigator Jessica Fletcher. And the reruns are capitivating new (and younger) audiences who love a good mystery. For some time we have also...
THE REAL BOOK SPY’S NOVEMBER ROGUE RECOMMENDATION IS…
by The Real Book SpyReplacing a legend is never easy. Replacing two, well, that’s pretty much unheard of . . . and yet that exactly what Marc Cameron did a few years back when he stepped in and took over the Jack Ryan universe, following the footsteps of Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney. Over the last...
Writer’s Block, Blunders, and NaNoWriMo
By Robin BurcellNovember means NaNoWriMo!It’s November, which means a lot of writers are doing NaNoWriMo, which is short for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words in a month (which for me is only half a novel). I participate every year in an unofficial capacity,...
NOVEMBER’S ROGUE RECOMMENDATION — CLUE #1
Someone who always gets his man, this author loves the dessert Baked Alaska.The Real Book Spy is set to release his November Rogue Recommendation on November 15th.As in previous months, The Real Book Spy and Rogue Women Writers will be giving away a copy of the author's book.There...
A real-life Boardwalk Empire
Nucky Johnson, in hat, next to Al Capone (3rd from right) In the fall of 2010 my husband and I began watching the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. My husband never passes up a show about gangsters, and I love a good period piece based...
Boyd Morrison Goes Rogue–Thriller Writer in the Limelight
By Robin BurcellFinal Option with Boyd MorrisonI've been fortunate enough to know Boyd Morrison since the first-ever ThrillerFest back in 2005. While Boyd currently co-authors with Clive Cussler in the Oregon series—Final Option is their latest collaboration—he's also a successful and...
A Stellar Writers Conference
Submitted by Karna Small BodmanSeveral of us Rogues just attended one of the best writers' conferences in the country. Sponsored by Mystery Writers of America, some 1,000 authors (published and aspiring) along with agents, editors, reviewers, librarians, booksellers and fans of the mystery crime...