Author: Chris Jansmann
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Prepare A Landing Party
Ah, August! That can only mean one thing: time for my buddy and I to pack up our Starfleet uniforms and make our annual sojourn to Las Vegas for STLV (formerly know as the Official Star Trek convention). This year, we’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the show, with actors and writers and anyone else…
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Fútbol
Like most of the world, I’ve been glued to the World Cup this summer. I’ve mentioned before that soccer — or, as Alejandro would patiently point out to me, fútbol — was one of the core sports I messed around with as a kid; that experience learning how to play gave me an appreciation for…
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Pathways
One of my favorite poems is the classic The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I’ve read it so many times over the years, the words have come to feel like good friends who visit often, friends of the sort you share a hot cup of coffee with while curled up on a couch, chatting…
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Bliss(fully) Done
As much as I love my characters — and I truly do — it’s been a few books now since I felt so wrapped up in the story, the words just flowed like the proverbial river to the sea. I think the last one to do that was Vengeance; after Suzanne swerved in a direction…
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Let’s Make Whoopie (Pies)
One of my favorite activities when visiting with family back in Maine is feasting on local food that I simply cannot find here in Tucson. I mean, yes, I can get fairly good lobster and shrimp and scallops; at the risk of demeaning some fine local establishments, what they serve is just not the same…
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Adventure Unlocked
After ten days visiting my family back East, I’ve returned to Arizona in the middle of our first triple-digit heatwave of the summer. Talk about whiplash! While the weather in Maine was beautiful, it was a tad more humid than I would have expected for early June; my memories of early summer are nearly three…
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Vacation Beckons
I’m headed out of town for a few weeks, so the blog will be quiet for a bit. It’s my usual recharge-the-batteries visit with family still living back in Maine, something I always look forward to each year. In an incredible case of coincidental timing, my friends from California are actually there now and leave…
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Geology
I’m about three-quarters of the way through writing Bliss, the next novel in the Vasily Korsokovach Investigates series. It’s been a fun experience so far — the story has moved along at an amazingly good clip, with great combinations of personal moments for Vasily interspersed with an intriguing case that, per usual, keeps him on…
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Unforced Errors
It’s probably not a surprise to learn that I’m something of a perfectionist when it comes to my writing. I’ve got all sorts of rules that I adhere to; most were the result of courses I took in high school or college (i.e. all paragraphs must have a minimum of three sentences), but several developed…
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Out & About
Continuing the marketing voyage with my latest book, Silenced, I’ll be making an appearance at Stacks Book Club Oro Valley Friday, May 15, from 4:00pm to 8:00pm. This is the first time I’ve ventured behind the Tucson Festival of Books, so if you happen to be in the greater Tucson area, swing by and pick…