May 2009 books

Another coming-of-age story, “Planet of the dates” by Paul McComas is a tale of a seventeen year old boy with raging hormones, and the three girls in his life. Stephanie acts in his homemade movies, Danielle is an African-American friend from school, and Cheryl, a stoner obsessed with punk rock, shoplifting, and getting high. It’s the 1980s in suburban Milwaukee, and the hero (based on the author, ya think?) spends his time at a meaningless part-time job and plans to make a movie about the Loch Ness Monster. Mildly humorous and not too deep.

Singing swan by Margaret Ashmun
Forensics: a guide for writers by D.P. Lyle
Murder in Central Park by Michael Jahn
Death games by Michael Jahn
Character naming sourcebook by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Doll with opal eyes by Jean DeWeese
Abroad for her country by Jean Wilkowski
City of God by Michael Jahn
Casualty crossing by Kevin Hughes
Planet of the dates by Paul McComas
Bibliophiles dictionary by Miles Westley
Murder on Fifth Avenue by Michael Jahn
Road dogs by Elmore Leonard
Cream puff murder by Joanne Fluke
Night rituals by Michael Jahn
Probable claws by Clea Simon
Writing and selling your mystery by Hallie Ephron
I’ll never be French by Mark Greenside
Don’t murder your mystery by Chris Roerden
First draft in thirty days by Karen Weisner
From first draft to finished novel by Karen Weisner
Murder on the waterfront by Michael Jahn
How to write killer fiction by Carolyn wheat
What it is by Lynda Barry