Tales From the Script: R. L. Stine & More

TALES FROM THE SCRIPT: R. L. Stine On The Goosebumps Adaptations By April Snellings [Welcome to The Big Thrill’s newest …

New Marching Orders for Thriller Authors? By Dawn Ius Since Leo Tolstoy’s epic War & Peace was published in 1867, mi…

Discovering the Secrets of a Legend By Nancy Bilyeau While it may seem that the vampire novel has been drained of every …

Exploring the State Between Asleep and Awake By Dawn Ius “Between the dreams of night and day, there is not so great a d…

Darkness in a Town of Sunshine By E. M. Powell Fall is an easy season to love—but if you’re not quite ready for the shor…

Something Wicked This Way Comes By R. G. Belsky Steven James spends a lot of time teaching storytelling techniques to as…

The Rugged Glory of Arizona By J. A. Jance I grew up in southeastern Arizona, and the landscape of that corner of the st…

Taking Your Place in the Land of Giants By Steve P. Vincent Writers spend the majority of their time inside their own wo…

Facing Off With a Serial Killer By Nancy Bilyeau One terrible day, Brenda Novak caught her day-care provider drugging he…

How to Nail a “Killing” By J. H. Bográn One of the most influential and popular of all graphic novels turns 30 this year…

Exploring an Island of Ghosts By Michael Sears Not many authors start their careers being compared to Graham Greene, Joh…

The Scare Secrets of Thriller Novelists By Dawn Ius Author Carter Wilson sets up his annual Halloween display with one g…

Writing a Novel Most Intricate This may very well be the twistiest, most intricate crime novel you’ll read this year. A …

By Dawn Ius Putting together a collection of short stories is no easy task —there’s a process the author goes through to…

Revenge is anything but sweet in this twisty thriller about two women with very different lives locked in the same deadl…

By Nancy Bilyeau With the arrival in 2017 of Edinburgh Twilight, a historical mystery featuring as its protagonist Detec…

By Wendy Tyson E. M. Powell, author of the bestselling Fifth Knight medieval thrillers, has returned with the second ins…

Mix together a cocktail for murder, add a few salty suspects, toss in a dollop of sweet humor, and you have the recipe f…

By Karen Harper Colin Campbell is a Brit with a British hero who has reinvented himself in U.S. law enforcement. Nothing…

By Jaden Terrell Like most writers, Karna Small Bodman started her adult life with a day job. Not an ordinary day job, l…

The “black car” has appeared both conspicuously and inconspicuously throughout the annals of fiction—its presence both m…

By Austin S. Camacho Tired of hearing about the current political craziness? No problem. Jay Schiffman’s GAME OF THE GOD…

By George Ebey In SHOT OF LOVE, the next installment in R. J. Jagger’s Nick Teffinger crime series, Denver homicide dete…

By Charles Salzberg “I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes,” says Liese Sherwood-Fabre, autho…