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Kris Neri's Blog
November 6, 2009
- What goes into the making of a great bookstore? Too many things to list. But as I own what I’m told is a pretty great one, The Well Red Coyote in Sedona, Arizona, let me tell you about the remarks we hear most often. The aspects of our store that people comment on the most are the atmosphere and selection. And there’s more involved in creating both than most people would believe.More than a ...
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October 26, 2009
- Since I’ve always believed that we writers are products of the paths we’ve followed, in art and in life, it’s not a surprise that I write madcap mysteries like my Tracy Eaton mysteries — the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity Award-nominated REVENGE OF THE GYPSY QUEEN, DEM BONES’ REVENGE and the forthcoming REVENGE FOR OLD TIMES’ SAKE (Spring ’10; Cherokee McGhee Mystery).The mystery part is ...
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October 13, 2009
- I served as one of the Guests of the Honor, along with regional author and former Newsweek reporter James Bishop, Jr., of the First Annual Sedona Book Festival (October 2-3). Although my new urban fantasy novel, High Crimes on the Magical Plane, isn’t officially published until October 15, my publisher made copies available for the festival, so we were able to introduce it that night. Here’s ...
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September 16, 2009
- Forgiveness used to be a tough one for me. I suffered severe abuse as a child, and like most of us, I picked up a few more bruises as I moved into and through adulthood. What I understand now, though I didn’t realize it at the time, was that I held onto my wounds as if they were a gift. Or a badge of honor. Perhaps they were, if I regarded continued victimhood is my goal.I don’t think I’m ...
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September 15, 2009
- We all have our holiday traditions. We cook special meals, bake cookies, wrap gifts, send cards and enjoy warm times with family and friends. Since we opened our Sedona bookstore, The Well Red Coyote, I’ve tried to hold onto as many of our holiday traditions as possible. But December in retailing is over-the-top crazy — good crazy, but insanely busy nonetheless. Some traditions I’ve had to ...
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August 24, 2009
- A few weeks ago, Red Room asked all of its published authors to post a short blog about a mistake they made when they were first published, so aspiring writers could learn from them. My reaction was: Where to begin? Would they regard a few hundred pages of mistakes as “short”? I finally decided to limit it to the mistake that stuck most firmly into my craw, whatever part ...
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July 29, 2009
- I'm sure I made loads of mistakes with my first book, REVENGE OF THE GYPSY QUEEN. Despite that, the novel was honored with three major award nominations within the mystery genre, and it won another award. But while I loved the book, and most aspects of the new-author experience, I hated the cover. I didn't just hate looking at it myself, I dreaded the questions I always got about it from ...
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July 21, 2009
- I was saddened to learn of the September closing of the Creatures & Crooks Bookshoppe, a mystery, science fiction and fantasy store, in Richmond, Virginia. As an author, I regret the passing of any bookstore, but I signed at Creatures & Crooks, so I know firsthand what a terrific store it is. And as a bookstore owner -- my husband and I own The Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona, Arizona ...
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July 6, 2009
- June 10th was a special day for me. Nope, not my birthday. Nor my anniversary. But June 10th will always be one of the red letter days on my calendar. July 10th will be just as great. Those are the re-pub dates for the first two books in my Tracy Eaton mystery series, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen (6/10) and Dem Bones’ Revenge (7/10), the days in which they have and will return to print. And with ...
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June 23, 2009
- Karyne Corum interviewed me on her new blog: The Raven Croaks: Where Dark Plots are Brought to Light. We two Jersey girls (she, current; me, former) discussed the process of getting published, promoting books, as well as the choices I brought to my forthcoming supernatural mystery-urban fantasy, HIGH CRIMES ON THE MAGICAL PLANE (Red Coyote Press; October '09). If any of those topics interest you, ...
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June 12, 2009
- My friend and sister Femme, bestselling mystery author, Donna Andrews, blogged awhile back, “No, I am not my heroine,” in which she confessed to being less organized than her series protagonist, Meg Langslow. I must admit to being at the other extreme — I'm too much like my madcap characters. I write a number of them, including Tracy Eaton and the wacky gang in those mysteries, REVENGE OF ...
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June 6, 2009
- I'm not a parent. Unless you count my many fur children, past and present. Actually, for me they do count, but what I mean to say is, that I haven't given birth to them. (Now there's an image.) What I’ve birthed instead is books and short stories, and I'm now due-any-minute pregnant with a reprint of my first novel, REVENGE OF THE GYPSY QUEEN, the first Tracy Eaton mystery, which officially ...
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May 29, 2009
- Lewis Buzbee suggests in his book, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, that rather than being conscripted into military service, young people should be required to work in retail. He believes it would make us a kinder, gentler country, with loads more patience, if we all had to serve time behind a counter, dealing with the public. I couldn't agree more. Except for a short stint during high school, when ...
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March 20, 2009
- As Charles Manson once said, "Are people strange, or am I just crazy?" Call me naïve, but as a published author myself, I assumed other authors must interact with booksellers as courteously as I do. I've always believed intelligence and unusual sensitivity to be typical traits among those who write. For the most part I've found that to be true. But I’m also a bookseller now — my ...
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