Veronica Cline Barton
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Mystery Topic: #CozyMystery Trends I'll Be Watching for in 2023
"Now comes the mystery." Henry Ward Beecher As a cozy mystery writer and reader, I'm looking ahead to 2023 and have started booking my...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Nov 1, 20225 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: 'Tis the Season for Holiday Mysteries!
“I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.” -Vera Nazarian Well, #HoHoHo hello, November,...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Oct 26, 20224 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Bring a Little Hygge Into Your World!
“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To stand at our...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Oct 18, 20226 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Book Club Reads; How Would Your Book(s) Stack Up?
"Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Oct 12, 20228 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: A #Spooktober Chat with a Master of Horror, Author Ken Stark!
Multi-award-winning #horror writer, questionable painter, unapologetic nerd, and committed beer enthusiast. Ken Stark One of the absolute...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Oct 5, 20223 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: It's Fall Y'all; Time to Eat, Drink, and Be Scary!
“I long for the days Of pumpkins and ghosts; When the dead use homes And people as hosts.” ― E. Reyes 🎃👻 Pumpkin spice and everything...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Sep 21, 20224 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Scenic Waterways, Icy Bergs, Wicked Mists, and Rowdy Good Fun! #Alaska
"More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down and all you'll see is...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Sep 14, 20223 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: State 49, Alaska!
"By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid." — Theodore Roosevelt Grrrrreetings from State 49! This past week the...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Sep 7, 20223 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Wicked Mist Is Here!
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..." William Shakespeare Well, hello September and with it, a big #WOOHOO...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Aug 31, 20224 min read
Veronica's #WritersDairy: Ode to the Summer of '22
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Aug 23, 20226 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Upstairs/Downstairs; Positioning the Class Divide in a Storyline
“I think accepting change is quite as important as defending the past.” — Cora, Lady Grantham, Downton Abbey, Season 3 In today's post I...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Aug 17, 20224 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Coming this Christmas Season, It's A Novel Noel!
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” ― Mary Ellen Chase I know it's still August, but... This week I'm super...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Aug 10, 20225 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Calling All Mystery Lovers: Meet the Authors of #MurdersWeWrite!
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle Imagine if you will, a place where...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Aug 3, 20223 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: It's a 'Wonderful World' at the Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters!
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta Well, hello August! Last week my OH and I had the...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Jul 27, 202211 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: A Far-Out Chat with The Martian Diaries #Author H.E. Wilburson!
"For a time, I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive." H.G. Wells,...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Jul 20, 20225 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Planning the Next Book; 5 Questions I Ask Before I Start Writing!
“You should employ your little grey cells” ― Agatha Christie Midway through 2022, guess what I'm up to? I've officially started the...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Jul 13, 20226 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: The Allure of Places Where Things Go Bump in the Night...
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ― Edgar Allan Poe With Wicked Mist and A Novel Noel set to launch this fall,...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Jul 6, 20223 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Reflections Under the Stars
“it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” ― Kenny Chesney Well, hello, July--let the second half of the year...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Jun 29, 20223 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: Something Wicked This Way Comes...
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..." William Shakespeare, Macbeth Ah, the joys of being a writer when one's...
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Veronica Cline Barton
Jun 22, 20226 min read
Veronica's #WritersDiary: A #Writer's Dilemma; Mixing Tales of Mystery with the Holidays
“Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder.” ― Agatha Christie Less than two weeks to go 'til Christmas in July! Who's...
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