by Susan Van Kirk | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog
We all know that book covers sell books. Duh. Cover artists and publishers connect complicated pieces and parts to come up with covers that sell, reflect the contents, promote a brand for a series, and fit the publisher’s catalog. I had not thought about all those...
by Susan Van Kirk | Apr 16, 2018 | Blog
Janet Lynn and Will Zeilinger write mysteries both individually and together. Their latest book, Slick Deal, is about the interesting history of a location in Southern California. They’ve posted on my blog before about their Skylar Drake murder series, and they...
by Susan Van Kirk | May 10, 2016 | Blog
Last year I met Debra H. Goldstein at the Malice Domestic conference in Maryland, and we discovered that we were published by the same company. After that, we found ourselves in numerous group settings at the conference, and Debra moderated a panel I was on about...
by Susan Van Kirk | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog
Sitting at my desk in mid-January, I observe my window thermometer resting at five degrees above zero. That’s actually a little better than early morning when I took the recycling out to the end of the driveway and the mercury reported two degrees below zero. If I had...
by Susan Van Kirk | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog
The title of this post is a phrase first attributed to Adam Smith in his economics book, The Wealth of Nations. The phrase was repeated in a derisive way by Napoleon to describe the United Kingdom: L’Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers. Of course, Napoleon said...