Entries by Bethany Maines
Sasqwatch!
The Sasqwatch Film Festival Last year, I connected with a Canadian film director who was looking for a fast, funny, crime-centered short script. Of which I had… zero. But what I did have was a stack of short stories. So I transferred one of my short stories to script format. He loved it, optioned it […]
Valentine’s Noir
Noir? No Are? Nwar? What now? I occasionally participate in an author event called Noir at the Bar. Local writers bring crime and “noir” themed stories to scandalize listeners with tales of the seedy underbelly of society. Oh, and also to drink, socialize and terrorize ourselves by reading in public. This time around our date […]
New Year – New Mystery
2024 Brings in the Mystery As a multi-genre author who has written everything from mystery, sci-fi, crime, and fantasy, I know my genre hopping can get confusing to my readers. But I started writing back when having a pen name was a closely guarded secret. Now if you want to write in another genre, people […]
In Defense of the Day Job
A Day Job? Really? I know a lot of writer’s for whom the dream is to ditch the day job and become a Stay-At-Home-Writer. It would be lovely to be solely supporting myself on my writing. But that’s not financial reality for most writers and I would argue that it shouldn’t be. I think the […]
It’s a Mystery!
San Juan Islands Mystery #4 This October 23rd will see the release of An Unfinished Storm—book 4 in the San Juan Island Mystery series. When I started the series I had just started my own business, but I was still spending a few hours a week with my grandmother attempting to clean out her house. The […]
Movie Making
Let’s Make a Movie! I’ve have often been told that I write “cinematically”. I don’t know what that means exactly, but like most writers I’d love to have a movie made of one of my books. And for the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with writing scripts. I took a seminar on how to […]
Next Stop: The Islands
Ahhhh…. The Islands Sounds so dreamy and vacation-y, doesn’t it? I’m working on book four of my San Juan Islands Mystery series. A book that I have been swearing that I will get to for about three years. And I’m finally doing it! And good lordy do I hate the islands. It’s not vacation. It’s […]
Alekos!
Alekos Now Available! Whew! I’ve made it to summer and the final (for now) book of my Rejects Pack trilogy. Alekos wraps up the storyline started in the books 1 and 2 (Hudson & Killian) in what I hope is a satisfactory conclusion. Hint: I’m trying to tell you there’s a Happily Ever After without […]