by Susan Van Kirk | Mar 26, 2023 | Blog, book reviews, mysteries, reading
This winter I’ve read many mysteries. Since I’m president of the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime, I decided to read some books by my fellow guppies. “Guppy” means the “great unpublished” in the past history of the chapter, but...
by Susan Van Kirk | Jun 26, 2021 | Blog, mysteries, mystery, Susan Van Kirk
Lesson Plan for Murder by Lori Robbins What’s not to love when an English teacher like me reads a mystery where the chapters are titled Things Fall Apart or Heart of Darkness and the protagonist is a high school English teacher? First, I loved the clever, intelligent...
by Susan Van Kirk | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
[I published a post on this topic once before, but I decided it would be a good subject to revisit now that my second Endurance mystery, Marry in Haste, has just been launched.] A common plea I’ve seen recently on websites and Facebook reader/writer sites involve...
by Susan Van Kirk | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Book reviews. A common plea or question I’ve seen recently on numerous websites and Facebook reader/writer sites involve authors asking readers, in the kindest way, to please go on GoodReads or Amazon (online) or Barnes and Noble (online) and write reviews of their...
by Susan Van Kirk | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog
Or How Readers Can Help Writers If you’ve been following my social media postings or reading my newsletter, you know that I have a second mystery, Marry in Haste, coming out in November, and I recently launched an e-book novella about my Endurance detective called The...
