tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post2237380884762684395..comments2024-03-28T11:13:05.893-07:00Comments on The Rap Sheet: The Book You Have to Read: “The Red Carnelian,” by Phyllis A. WhitneyJ. Kingston Piercehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073921191624535912noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-50419611906668735442020-11-21T13:08:49.113-08:002020-11-21T13:08:49.113-08:00Dear Anonymous: If you're asking about the pap...Dear Anonymous: If you're asking about the paperback edition at the top of this post, I believe it was published in 1972, with cover art by Victor Prezio. -- Cheers, JeffJ. Kingston Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073921191624535912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-69483692488098549042020-11-21T12:04:33.715-08:002020-11-21T12:04:33.715-08:00What year is this edition?
What year is this edition?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-66727957028358770392014-04-07T20:15:01.405-07:002014-04-07T20:15:01.405-07:00I adored reading Phyllis A. Whitney when I was gro...I adored reading Phyllis A. Whitney when I was growing up. I lived in a rural part of Minnesota and the bookmobile librarian would try to find new ones for me. My first novel, Stalking Susan, was published in 2008. Earlier that year, I googled Phyllis A Whitney and discovered she was still alive at age 104. I spent the next 48 hours trying to work up the nerve to write and ask her for a blurb. I wasn't sure a 104 year old woman would want to take time to read my book, but decided to give it a try. I went back to her website to find the contact button, but something had changed. A headline made it appear she had died. Because she had. A month later, I gave a speech at PLA, and talked about how she had inspired me, and that I had read her advice to writers: give every character a secret.The audience clapped. I posted a comment about this on the guest book of her website and her grandson contacted me to ask if I could send him a copy of my remarks.I did, and for the next couple of years, it appeared on her website.I was so proud. I wish I would have tried to find her earlier. Julie Kramerhttp://www.juliekramerbooks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-62535768027526663862014-04-05T14:36:49.462-07:002014-04-05T14:36:49.462-07:00This is a great piece. I also found Phyllis Whitne...This is a great piece. I also found Phyllis Whitney via my parents' bookshelves. I read them, because I read anything I could get away with back then. I remember by the time I got to middle school and found her romances for young adults on the library shelves, I found them dull. I was used to the more grown-up excitement. Kelly Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01752857506190488860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-17112676560514489352014-04-05T05:38:56.907-07:002014-04-05T05:38:56.907-07:00I was a teenager in the 1960's and grew up rea...I was a teenager in the 1960's and grew up reading Holt, Whitney, and Stewart. I was an eclectic reader, but I loved the excitement and mystery in these Gothic novels (the term used on the book jackets then). <br /><br />joan.kylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015342608992682333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-7166839257726455992014-04-04T12:07:29.879-07:002014-04-04T12:07:29.879-07:00I think the term Gothic romance is a misnomer. She...I think the term Gothic romance is a misnomer. She wrote romantic suspense sometimes with Gothic elements. But <i>Red Is for Murder</i> doesn't even belong to either subgenre. It's a detective novel. Rather than try to pass off this book as some kind of subversion of the traditonal Gothic novel from the Walpole/Radcliffe school you would have been better off drawing analogies to crime writers like Mignon Eberhart, Dorothy Cameron Disney, and best of all Zelda Popkin who set her first detective novel (<i>Death Wears a White Gardenia</i>, 1938) in a department store and had a feisty woman store detective as protagonist. They all had been writing similar books in the genre, all with strong independent woman lead characters, throughout the 1930s well before Whitney came along with her first contribution.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.com