At Kevin Tipple's blog Mary discuses writing, characters, and how history relates to our characters. Check it out at: Minor Characters ...

by Eric In her latest blog, Questioning a Master? mystery author Triss Stein reminds us that Elmore Leonard famously wrote a list of writ...

At Anastasia Pollack's Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers Mary talks about where some odd places she's found plot ideas. Read The E...

At PJ Nunn's bookbrowsing, Mary offers some tips and Interet resources for Naming Your Characters .

At bookreporter -- Author Talk Mary explains how we connected with the Press, the amount of research that goes into recreating the world o...

Mary talks about pets and writing at Heather Weidner's Pens, Paws, and Claws .

There's an interview with Eric Reed , our not so secret pseudonym, at Killer Crafts and Crafty Killers.

We know we've neglected our blog recently. Ruined Stones , the second Grace Baxter mystery set in the UK during World War Two, was publ...

Mary and I decided to change the title of our blog because we're retiring. We've both given up all of our freelance writing and edi...

by Eric Most readers and writers would probably agree that the history in a historical mystery should be accurate. If your mystery plot dep...

by Eric It's been a while since Murder in Megara came out so Mary and I have started plotting the next of our John the Lord Chamberlai...

The Guardian Stones is an exciting departure for us. Set in the UK during WWII, a much different period than our Byzantine mysteries, it i...

by Eric Poisoned Pen Press published our first mystery novel, One for Sorrow, in December 1999. When The Guardian Stones appears in Januar...

by Eric The Yankees clinched a playoff spot over the weekend, a few days before the official publication date for Murder in Megara so, as a...

by Eric It's axiomatic that writers must have websites. When Mary and I saw our first novel, One for Sorrow published in 1999 we alr...

by Eric Did you hear the huge sigh of relief coming from Casa Maywrite? It blew squirrels out of the pine trees at the end of the yard. The...