What, you may ask, is an exquisite corpse? It is a game much like Mad Libs or the old-fashioned parlor game of Consequences, in which a series of artists or writers each adds a paragraph or picture part in sequence, knowing nothing or very little of the previous contributions. The name comes from a sentence
It’s… Alive! The Woodstock Library’s First Annual Exquisite Corpse
Mysteries to Die For (M2D4 to many of us) has just released its latest anthology,Things That Go Jack in the Night. To quote the official description: In the English language, there are a few, very special words that can function as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. One word goes further, creating new words from old.
New Story Up at Mysteries to Die For
Thrilled — and more than a little gobsmacked — to report that my latest standalone mystery, The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake, has just been nominated for a Claymore Award for Best Comic Novel. Harmony Dalgleish is a Woodstock native and British rock star’s son. Harmony has just flunked out of graduate school after losing
The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake is a Claymore Finalist!
This time, Watson & Doyle set out to investigate a classic locked-room mystery, when an unassuming librarian appears to have poisoned an entire library board. Interested? You can find it here.
The Byrdcliffe Library catalogue is now up and running on LibraryThing. Please come visit us there for updates, cover art, and additional author information.
The Byrdcliffe Library Project Has a New Home
Then please stop by Bookworms in the Wild, where host Howard Altarescu as ChatGPT that very question.
Ever Wonder What a Real AI Program Would Make of Doyle?
I was lucky enough to locate the original Byrdcliffe copy of Candace Wheeler’s How to Make Rugs. Not only does it have the Byrdcliffe bookplate, but it also has Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead’s signature on the flyleaf. l I have found no evidence that anyone at Byrdcliffe ever used the book to actually make a rug,
Candace Wheeler: How to Make Rugs
How did the Easter Bunny catch a bullet between the ears when he was alone on a moving railroad car? Season 5 of Murder to Die For is now available in both print and as an ebook at tgwolffcom.wordpress.com/publishing/. And coming just in time for Easter, you can listen to the story at tgwolffcom.wordpress.com/podcast/.
A New Watson and Doyle Short Adventure
Dyeing and Tissue-Printing by W. Crookes, F.R.S. is one of many books on textile manufacture that have the Byrdcliffe bookplate. Another in my collection is How to Make Rugs by Candace Wheeler, which bears Ralph Whitehead’s signature as well as the Byrdcliffe bookplate. Candace Wheeler is such a towering figure that she warrants an entire
Textiles and Dyeing at Byrdcliffe: Marie Little and The Looms
