
If you are interested in blogging or want to promote your book, please contact E. B. Davis at writerswhokill@gmail.com.
Check out our April author interviews: Two WWK members have new books out this month. Look for James Montgomery Jackson's interview about his fifth Seamus McCree novel, Empty Promises, on 4/4. Tina Whittle's sixth Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver novel, Necessary Ends also debuts this month. Her interview will be on 4/18. WWK veteran, Sherry Harris's interview posts on 4/11. The next in her series, I Know What You Bid Last Summer, is now available. Grace Topping interviews KB Owen on 4/25. Please join us in welcoming these authors to WWK.
Our April Saturday Guest Blogger Schedule: 4/7-Cindy Callaghan, 4/14-Sasscer Hill, 4/21-Margaret S. Hamilton, 4/28-Kait Carson.
Congratulations to our writers for the following publications:
Tina Whittle's sixth Tai Randolph mystery, Necessary Ends, debuts on April 3, 2018. Look for it here. Tina was nominated for a Derringer Award for her novelette, "Trouble Like A Freight Train Coming." We're all crossing our fingers for her.
James M. Jackson's Empty Promises, the next in the Seamus McCree mystery series (5th), will be available on April 3, 2018. Purchase links are here.
Dark Sister, a poetry collection, is Linda Rodriguez's tenth published book. It's available for sale here:
Shari Randall's "Pets" will be included in Chesapeake Crimes: Fur, Feathers, and Felonies anthology, which will be published in 2018. In the same anthology "Rasputin," KM Rockwood's short story, will also be published. Her short story "Goldie" will be published in the Busted anthology, which will be released by Level Best Books on April 25th.
Shari Randall's second Lobster Shack Mystery, Against the Claw, will be available in August, 2018.
In addition, our prolific KM has had the following shorts published as well: "Making Tracks" in Passport to Murder, Bouchercon anthology, October 2017 and "Turkey Underfoot," appears in the anthology The Killer Wore Cranberry: A Fifth Course of Chaos.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
ADJUSTING THE PATTERN

Saturday, November 23, 2013
SHERLOCK HOLMES FOR CHRISTMAS AND TWO TENNESSEE CONNECTIONS
John Arnold playing Sherlock Holmes |
Director of Music at Lyttleton
Street United Methodist Church in Camden, S.C. He has his DMA in Conducting
from the University of South Carolina. With a very good nature, he transcribes
the melodies we sing or play for him and tries to correct us in our musical
errors. Sometimes, we let him think he’s right. Actually, for the most part, we’re
a pretty agreeable group and appreciate the expertise Matt brings to our
proceedings.
Last year,
we did a version of A Christmas Carol
called Once Upon a Christmastime
(again, see the January 8, 2013 blog), with a cast of almost thirty, including
a large number of children and young people. This year, for the first time, we
have a cast of only adults. It’s the smallest cast we’ve ever had with just
eleven players.
I guess I
should have expected mostly adults when I let people know that our play would be
based on the Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
’
story, “The Adventure of the
Blue Carbuncle.” But, I had noticed the renewed interest among all ages in Holmes from the
Robert Downey movies and the CBS and PBS series. Also, you can never be sure of
the participants until you hold auditions. That’s another good reason to
write your own production. You can tailor your script to the cast you have.
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Watson (Jim Jarvis) and Holmes painting set |
You might
ask how a Sherlock Holmes story fits into a church’s drama ministry? If you
haven’t read “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” please check it out at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle.
After discovering the guilty party, Holmes
releases him because “it’s the season of forgiveness.” The story has a powerful
message of the possibility for redeeming a life.
We’ve
enjoyed tremendously putting together our A
Sherlock Holmes Christmas. The opening night dinner theater is sold out,
but if you’re in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, December 7, come to St. Paul’s at
the corner of Bull and Blanding Streets for the matinee at 3:00 pm or the
evening performance at 7:00 pm. No charge for an hour of entertainment that
will get you in the holiday mood.
Now, you may ask, what are the Tennessee
connections mentioned in the title of this post? One relates back to our
production from last year. The young actress portraying our Fan Scrooge, Ebenezer’s
sister who comes to his school to tell him he will celebrate the holiday with
family, was the delightful Emma Imholz. She had appeared in many local
productions and some films. This year, she auditioned and was given the role of
Fan in Dolly Parton’s version of A
Christmas Carol, being presented at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Broadway
World has a video featuring scenes from the Dollywood production. Our Em is in
the opening and closing sequences of that video and we are so proud of her.Please check out some of the footage of the
Dollywood production with Em at:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=626403![]() |
Emma Imholz at Dollywood |
The other Tennessee
connection? The talented and versatile Judy Egner of Knoxville, Tennessee. You don’t recognize the
name? Perhaps you know her as Kaye George
,
award nominated author of several short stories and three mystery series:
Imogene Duckworthy, Cressa Carraway Musical, and People of the Wind
(Neanderthal), whose Fat Cat series, that she is writing as Janet Cantrell, will
appear in September 2014. Visit her webpage kayegeorge.com for more
information.![]() |
Kaye George |
Friday, November 22, 2013
How It All Started
Thursday, November 21, 2013
THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR
Three members of my Red Read Robin book club at my house. |
On the way to my back door. |
Maggie with my two ponies near the pond. |