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Latest blog posts from epubbiing with nicola furlong

How to Write a Mystery Novel �" Victoria, BC Writers’ Workshop
If you live on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, and you’ve always wanted to write a mystery novel, then take your fingers off the keyboard and listen up. I’m excited to announce that I’ve been asked to teach a workshop on writing mystery novels for Camosun College in lovely Victoria, BC. The...
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Published 18 hours ago

The Electronic Evolution of Publishing
I recently gave a speech to a local group called the Victoria Writers’ Society on the Mysterious Evolution of Publishing. An engaging crowd of over thirty writers and editors attended. My focus was on electronic publishing and blogging and how I have used ebooks to give a couple of my novels a...
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Published a week ago

Podcasting �" How to Write Genre Fiction 2/2
Since I always enjoy peeking behind the curtain and seeing the secrets therein, I love hearing what other fiction writers offer as their methods, tips and techniques. Now that PODCASTING exists as an easy to make and even easier to hear medium, it’s a perfect platform for what I have in mind:...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Podcasting �" How to Write Genre Fiction 1/2
Okay, I’ve got the promo website, I’ve got social media whirling and I’m blogging. Should be enough, don’t you think? Nah…I’ve decided to give podcasting a try and blog about it. As a writer, I’m always keen to learn practical tips and techniques of the craft from other published...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Clueing in �" The Perennial Popularity of Mystery Novels: 5/5
In previous posts, we’ve discussed the history of the mystery novel and are now identifying the FOUR ELEMENTARY clues that help us understand this genre’s perennial popularity. We’ve already put the magnifying glass over our first two clues: Clue 1: The Shocking Out of Place Body, and Clue...
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Published a month ago

Clueing in �" The Perennial Popularity of Mystery Novels: 4/5
In our previous posts we’ve investigated the ‘mystery novel’ crime scene. What evidence have we uncovered to help us discover the perennial popularity of this type of genre fiction? Ah, here are the FOUR elemetary clues: CLUE 1: The Shocking Out of Place Body W.H. Auden was first on the...
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Published a month ago

Clueing In �" The Perennial Popularity of Mystery Novels: 3/5
Though its origins seem to be the British Isles, the mystery scene hopped across the Pacific into the US in the thirties and forties and was embraced by tough-talking private dicks. Since then, the mystery scene has gone global and the plot just keeps getting thicker. Gallows View by Peter...
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Published 2 months ago

New Review for Teed Off!
Cover for Teed Off! Coffee Time Romance & More, just reviewed my swinging whodunit, Teed Off!. Matilda, a reviewer for the terrific online review site, called Teed Off! “good and suspenseful” and she’s not even a golfer! You may read the whole review here. Teed Off! reviewed by CTR Teed...
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Published 2 months ago

Clueing In �" The Perennial Popularity of Mystery Novels: 2/5
So, we know mysteries and mystery writing is incredibly popular. We also know that the first crime fiction originated and prospered in the UK in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The British whodunits had a charming ’stiff upper lip’ genteel style where, on the surface at...
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Published 2 months ago

The Number of Library E-book Downloads Soared in 2009
Okay, hands up those of you who insisted that your local library was going the way of the Dodo. Good, now those of you who said e-books were just a fad, stick up your fists, too. Now, don’t you look foolish. Dodo bird (photo Jeremy Burgin) Today, soaring numbers of ebook (and audio...
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Published 2 months ago