A Fun Conversation with Omnimystery News

Posted on by Michael Kahn
We authors often complain about being asked the same 2 or 3 questions at every single interview. Not so with the clever folks at Omnimystery News. Their creative and challenging questions ranged from my favorite authors to the creation of a Tweet-ready synopsis of my latest novel, Face Value (mine came in at 138 characters) to my…
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Who Tells the Story: From the Bible to Marlowe

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Who will tell the story? Every author must answer that question before typing “Chapter One” at the top of that first page. Not who will write the story. That’s the author’s job. But who will tell it? Who will serve as the narrator? One common answer is known as Third Person Omniscient. That’s where the…
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“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Ah, yes, Norma Desmond’s famous line from the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. And suddenly, compliments of another one of Marshal Zeringue’s cool blogs, My Book, The Movie, Rachel Gold may be ready for her close-up. Marshal seeks out authors of new novels and asks them to cast the movie version. So when he got word that…
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The Page 69 Test (with Trigger Warning)

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Bet you’ve not heard of the Page 69 Test. Neither had I. A few days ago I wrote a post about a truly fun website for readers and writers entitled “Campaign for the American Reader” and run by Marshal Zeringue. Marshal had asked me to tell his readers what I was reading at the moment, and I…
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From Sherlock Holmes to Stanley Plotkin to Rachel Gold

Posted on by Michael Kahn
For those of us who love to read novels, the Word Nerds blog is a true delight, despite its intriguingly strange name. But as the blog’s motto announces: “No pocket protectors here; just don’t break the spines on the books.” Thus I was flattered when they asked me to write a guest blog post in…
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What I’m Reading Now

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Marshal Zeringue runs a truly cool website for readers and writers entitled “Campaign for the American Reader” and found here. As Marshal explains: “The goal of this blog is to inspire more people to spend more time reading books. I’ll try to do that by shining a little light on books that I like and…
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Where Did THAT Come From?

Posted on by Michael Kahn
Readers often ask, “Where did you get the idea for that story?” Most of the time, at least for me, the answer is, “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember.” But sometimes I do. The best example is the premise of my first novel, The Canaan Legacy (renamed Grave Designs in the paperback edition). That mystery opens with the…
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