Hated every page. Hated every tired cliche. Woke up at 2:AM with the fey cozy voice in my head. My only choice was to make it tell a brutal, filthy story
At that same Barnes & Noble (as the cozys) I asked if they had any Ellery Queen novels or anthologies. In fifth grade these and Encyclopedia Brown were my favorites. The store manager hung his head and said, no, they didn't stock Ellery Queen.
For real? I should get busy pumping out a series of hardcore mystery novels where the main character/detective is an orangutan.
There’ll be a big reveal in the 4th book (‘The Loin Letter’) where it’ll be discovered that he’s a descendent of the orangutan from Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’, which will be a major point of existentialism for the orangutan detective (whose name, I’ve decided, will be Mungo Steele).
You nailed it with “anglophile snuff porn.” My family is addicted to this type of book and TV show. I never knew it bothered anyone else, I’m not alone hah.
Sounds ruff!
Hahahhahah
I wish my brain could process as much as yours can. Smh. Did you begin liking it and catch a wave or was it like pushing a boulder up a hill?
Hated every page. Hated every tired cliche. Woke up at 2:AM with the fey cozy voice in my head. My only choice was to make it tell a brutal, filthy story
You’re my hero. Ha!!
The length a writer goes through for writing. Amazing! Pass me some of your pace dude. You just Kylian-Mbapped a whole mystery section.
Trigger warning. This might make you sad.
At that same Barnes & Noble (as the cozys) I asked if they had any Ellery Queen novels or anthologies. In fifth grade these and Encyclopedia Brown were my favorites. The store manager hung his head and said, no, they didn't stock Ellery Queen.
Thank fuck you did ❤️ The kids growing up reading these are going to need your story.
What are you -- a machine? One programmed to read as many cozy mysteries as possible?
Each one takes about thirty minutes. To read and to write.
For real? I should get busy pumping out a series of hardcore mystery novels where the main character/detective is an orangutan.
There’ll be a big reveal in the 4th book (‘The Loin Letter’) where it’ll be discovered that he’s a descendent of the orangutan from Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’, which will be a major point of existentialism for the orangutan detective (whose name, I’ve decided, will be Mungo Steele).
I’m embarrassed to admit I would read that.
Which was your favorite and which was your least favorite?
Have given them all away. Over a year ago.
To who? Your mortal enemies? They should have been buried.
But why??????
Write one. Make it you+sappy.
This makes my brain hurt. Not from the amount of reading but from the genre.
How was "If Books Could Kill" ?
You nailed it with “anglophile snuff porn.” My family is addicted to this type of book and TV show. I never knew it bothered anyone else, I’m not alone hah.
In a way, that's why I wanted us to go shooting. Violence is... well, violent. But you'd never know that from 'Murder, She Wrote.'
No, I absolutely believed you. 😆
Chuck,
Would you mind recommending a few to read, please?
Now that I have read through the comments…nevermind.
So is this one of your kinks? Just asking for a friend.
Hey, did you throw around a bastard of a story once every 2 or 3 cozy mysteries? To balance things out. (The opposite of EyeBleach)
I immediately notice BITE CLUB upper left vicinity. Lol. Perfect.
Oh dear. I had not noticed.
…And written none of them.😉
You're not going to tell us later that you published a whole series of these under a pseudonym, are you?