Maine writer’s short stories featured in mystery magazines
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[{'start': '0.000', 'end': '3.520', 'text': 'Gabriella Styler is the author and the'}, {'start': '1.839', 'end': '5.040', 'text': "subject of today's book club. Thank you"}, {'start': '3.520', 'end': '8.160', 'text': 'so much for coming in. Thank you so much'}, {'start': '5.040', 'end': '10.960', 'text': 'for having me. You deal in short'}, {'start': '8.160', 'end': '12.000', 'text': 'stories, mystery, crime, noir. Tell us a'}, {'start': '10.960', 'end': '14.960', 'text': 'little bit about some of the things that'}, {'start': '12.000', 'end': '17.359', 'text': 'you uh you write about. I love to write'}, {'start': '14.960', 'end': '19.760', 'text': 'about Maine first and foremost because I'}, {'start': '17.359', 'end': '21.600', 'text': 'love living here and and being here, but'}, {'start': '19.760', 'end': '23.760', 'text': 'then things that I experience in the'}, {'start': '21.600', 'end': '26.160', 'text': 'day-to-day. I I like to write about'}, {'start': '23.760', 'end': '30.240', 'text': 'baseball games, little league games, um'}, {'start': '26.160', 'end': '32.559', 'text': 'people that are faced with decisions'}, {'start': '30.240', 'end': '34.800', 'text': "that they're trying to wrestle with. I"}, {'start': '32.559', 'end': '37.120', 'text': 'love thinking about what makes a good'}, {'start': '34.800', 'end': '38.879', 'text': 'person do a bad thing. Um and really'}, {'start': '37.120', 'end': '40.239', 'text': 'looking at people up against walls and'}, {'start': '38.879', 'end': '41.840', 'text': "thinking about things like that. You're"}, {'start': '40.239', 'end': '43.920', 'text': 'a little game and you stole some double'}, {'start': '41.840', 'end': '45.840', 'text': 'bubble and you thought maybe I can ramp'}, {'start': '43.920', 'end': '48.239', 'text': 'up the stakes here a little bit more.'}, {'start': '45.840', 'end': '50.160', 'text': "You've got a a book that a story that's"}, {'start': '48.239', 'end': '52.719', 'text': 'soon to come out uh over the summer.'}, {'start': '50.160', 'end': '54.719', 'text': 'Yes, I have upcoming Ellery Queen'}, {'start': '52.719', 'end': '57.000', 'text': 'Mystery Magazine, which is a wonderful'}, {'start': '54.719', 'end': '60.079', 'text': 'mystery publication. Um, they come out'}, {'start': '57.000', 'end': '61.680', 'text': 'quarterly and um I have another one'}, {'start': '60.079', 'end': '63.840', 'text': 'coming out in the subsequent issue as'}, {'start': '61.680', 'end': '66.159', 'text': 'well with two other mainbased writers as'}, {'start': '63.840', 'end': '69.119', 'text': 'well in that next edition. So, and'}, {'start': '66.159', 'end': '71.200', 'text': "you're busy mom, husband, got a lot of"}, {'start': '69.119', 'end': '73.119', 'text': 'things to do. So, you do you draw a lot'}, {'start': '71.200', 'end': '74.080', 'text': 'of your I guess tell us a little bit'}, {'start': '73.119', 'end': '76.720', 'text': 'about that where you draw these'}, {'start': '74.080', 'end': '78.799', 'text': 'inspirations from and how you how an an'}, {'start': '76.720', 'end': '81.840', 'text': 'idea becomes the subject of a story.'}, {'start': '78.799', 'end': '83.439', 'text': "Yeah. Um, well, I think a lot. So, I'll"}, {'start': '81.840', 'end': '85.920', 'text': 'be sitting at a little league game, for'}, {'start': '83.439', 'end': '88.560', 'text': 'example, and I\'ll be like, "Huh, I'}, {'start': '85.920', 'end': '90.400', 'text': 'wonder what would happen if." And then'}, {'start': '88.560', 'end': '93.040', 'text': 'you hear the crack of a ball and you'}, {'start': '90.400', 'end': '94.880', 'text': 'think, "A baseball bat, huh, you could'}, {'start': '93.040', 'end': '96.880', 'text': 'do a lot with a baseball bat in a murder'}, {'start': '94.880', 'end': '99.040', 'text': 'mystery and then it kind of takes you'}, {'start': '96.880', 'end': '101.280', 'text': 'down that path, right?" Um, and it\'s'}, {'start': '99.040', 'end': '102.880', 'text': 'just a lot of fun. I like playing with'}, {'start': '101.280', 'end': '105.520', 'text': 'things that everybody kind of knows and'}, {'start': '102.880', 'end': '107.439', 'text': 'can experience and can relate to. Um, I'}, {'start': '105.520', 'end': '109.280', 'text': 'think it is interesting to do that and'}, {'start': '107.439', 'end': '111.040', 'text': 'then to just twist it a little bit. So,'}, {'start': '109.280', 'end': '112.240', 'text': "you've got a few things coming and one"}, {'start': '111.040', 'end': '114.479', 'text': 'of the things I I thought was'}, {'start': '112.240', 'end': '116.640', 'text': 'fascinating in what you told us in'}, {'start': '114.479', 'end': '118.479', 'text': 'advance is that you also uh are really'}, {'start': '116.640', 'end': '120.079', 'text': 'advocating for other people to reach out'}, {'start': '118.479', 'end': '122.079', 'text': "to you because you know there's maybe"}, {'start': '120.079', 'end': '123.600', 'text': 'others that want to express that'}, {'start': '122.079', 'end': '126.000', 'text': 'creative side themselves. Absolutely.'}, {'start': '123.600', 'end': '127.520', 'text': 'Maine is a wonderful place to live if'}, {'start': '126.000', 'end': '129.200', 'text': "you are interested in writing, if you're"}, {'start': '127.520', 'end': '131.599', 'text': 'a crime writer. The main writers and'}, {'start': '129.200', 'end': '133.599', 'text': 'publishers alliance is wonderful. Um,'}, {'start': '131.599', 'end': '135.120', 'text': "there's a main crime writers blog that's"}, {'start': '133.599', 'end': '136.879', 'text': 'great. There are great organizations'}, {'start': '135.120', 'end': '138.840', 'text': 'like Sisters in Crime and Mystery'}, {'start': '136.879', 'end': '141.680', 'text': 'Writers of America that have New England'}, {'start': '138.840', 'end': '143.680', 'text': 'chapters. Crime wave happens in Portland'}, {'start': '141.680', 'end': '146.640', 'text': "and that's a one-day crime writing"}, {'start': '143.680', 'end': '149.040', 'text': 'conference. The Crime Bake happens in in'}, {'start': '146.640', 'end': '150.040', 'text': "down in Denim, Massachusetts, and that's"}, {'start': '149.040', 'end': '152.560', 'text': 'about'}, {'start': '150.040', 'end': '155.120', 'text': '250 crime writers that get together and'}, {'start': '152.560', 'end': '157.599', 'text': 'just talk about crime writing and'}, {'start': '155.120', 'end': '159.599', 'text': 'killing and like all tastefully of'}, {'start': '157.599', 'end': '161.200', 'text': 'course. Sure. Hey, but sometimes, you'}, {'start': '159.599', 'end': '163.360', 'text': "know, that's uh people are intrigued by"}, {'start': '161.200', 'end': '166.800', 'text': "it and, you know, there's a reason that"}, {'start': '163.360', 'end': '168.879', 'text': 'uh every Netflix docu series is about'}, {'start': '166.800', 'end': '170.800', 'text': 'something, you know, that went astray'}, {'start': '168.879', 'end': '172.640', 'text': 'for one reason or the other, you know,'}, {'start': '170.800', 'end': '174.239', 'text': 'and I I always got to be worrying about'}, {'start': '172.640', 'end': '177.280', 'text': 'the neighbor. You never know. You never'}, {'start': '174.239', 'end': '178.480', 'text': "know what they're up to. Uh so, okay,"}, {'start': '177.280', 'end': '179.760', 'text': "you've got a story coming out over the"}, {'start': '178.480', 'end': '182.159', 'text': 'course of the summer and you another one'}, {'start': '179.760', 'end': '184.879', 'text': "in the fall. Yeah. Um, the one that's"}, {'start': '182.159', 'end': '187.280', 'text': "coming out over the summer is it's I was"}, {'start': '184.879', 'end': '190.480', 'text': 'nominated for an Edgar for my debut'}, {'start': '187.280', 'end': '193.040', 'text': 'short story and that one did really well'}, {'start': '190.480', 'end': '195.599', 'text': 'and I wrote that author that character'}, {'start': '193.040', 'end': '197.440', 'text': 'again in the next series and she her'}, {'start': '195.599', 'end': '199.120', 'text': "sister comes asking for a favor. She's"}, {'start': '197.440', 'end': '200.720', 'text': 'got a deadbeat boyfriend. The main'}, {'start': '199.120', 'end': '203.440', 'text': "character really doesn't want to help"}, {'start': '200.720', 'end': '205.840', 'text': 'but she decides to and she finds herself'}, {'start': '203.440', 'end': '208.239', 'text': "immersed in this guy she doesn't really"}, {'start': '205.840', 'end': '210.159', 'text': "like. She knows he didn't do it. She's"}, {'start': '208.239', 'end': '211.680', 'text': 'got to help him. Um, and and it goes'}, {'start': '210.159', 'end': '213.680', 'text': 'from there. So, that one explores like'}, {'start': '211.680', 'end': '215.120', 'text': 'sibling relationships, too. And then,'}, {'start': '213.680', 'end': '217.040', 'text': "uh, you'll introduce a new character"}, {'start': '215.120', 'end': '219.120', 'text': 'named Sloan in the story that comes in'}, {'start': '217.040', 'end': '220.640', 'text': 'the fall. Yeah. A private investigator,'}, {'start': '219.120', 'end': '222.480', 'text': 'and so that one is going to be fun.'}, {'start': '220.640', 'end': '226.239', 'text': "She's based in Portland. And in that"}, {'start': '222.480', 'end': '228.560', 'text': "one, um, she's she's kind of like up"}, {'start': '226.239', 'end': '232.319', 'text': "against a wall. Um, she's going to visit"}, {'start': '228.560', 'end': '233.920', 'text': 'her mother and her mother is harboring a'}, {'start': '232.319', 'end': '237.280', 'text': "fugitive and she's going to help that"}, {'start': '233.920', 'end': '238.640', 'text': "fugitive escape, which you got to Don't"}, {'start': '237.280', 'end': '240.000', 'text': "give it too much. I won't give you the"}, {'start': '238.640', 'end': '241.120', 'text': "answer, but it's a good one. Yeah. There"}, {'start': '240.000', 'end': '242.640', 'text': 'you go. You see some of the titles'}, {'start': '241.120', 'end': '245.519', 'text': "there, some of the things that you've uh"}, {'start': '242.640', 'end': '247.040', 'text': 'written for. Just the PI is a central'}, {'start': '245.519', 'end': '248.959', 'text': 'character. They they can just be into'}, {'start': '247.040', 'end': '250.959', 'text': 'just about anything. So, the the'}, {'start': '248.959', 'end': '253.439', 'text': 'possibilities are endless. Exactly. If'}, {'start': '250.959', 'end': '256.239', 'text': 'people do want to uh get in touch with'}, {'start': '253.439', 'end': '257.680', 'text': 'you or maybe just kind of flush out some'}, {'start': '256.239', 'end': '259.759', 'text': 'ideas or talk about writing, what should'}, {'start': '257.680', 'end': '262.079', 'text': "they do? Go to my website and there's a"}, {'start': '259.759', 'end': '264.080', 'text': 'form you can submit it and I I check my'}, {'start': '262.079', 'end': '266.560', 'text': "email regularly and I'm happy to connect"}, {'start': '264.080', 'end': '268.000', 'text': 'people with ideas and and just chat'}, {'start': '266.560', 'end': '270.479', 'text': "about crime writing. Yeah. Don't let"}, {'start': '268.000', 'end': '273.120', 'text': 'that creative uh flame burn out. You'}, {'start': '270.479', 'end': '274.080', 'text': 'talk to Gabriella Gabrielastitler.com'}, {'start': '273.120', 'end': '276.320', 'text': 'right there. Thank you so much for'}, {'start': '274.080', 'end': '276.320', 'text': 'coming in.'}]