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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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