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Crossing Genres: Three Authors on Risk, Reinvention, and Creative Freedom
What happens when writers leave their literary comfort zones?
Seven Pieces of Advice for the Aspiring Career Author
How do I transition from the excitement of being a debut to a long-term career as a writer?
Inspired By An Unhinged Moment: What’s Yours Is Mine
Nothing stirs up raw, unfiltered emotions quite like youth sports.
Story Behind the Story: The Girl in Cell A
Why do we Brits keep writing America?
The Airplane That Tried to Kill Me (and other adventures in writing)
I really started writing fiction when a C-5 Galaxy decided to give me a bad day.
Rom-Com Mysteries to YA Thrillers: A Pipe Dream?
Could I create characters from three generations that readers would relate to?
I Do…Or I Did It?
The honeymoon’s over in these books about marital disharmony…
Dark Waters, Darker Secrets:
5 Thrillers That Make a Splash
There’s something in the water in these dark, damp, and dangerous mysteries!
The Divorce Party by M.M. Deluca
Celebrating freedom in Sin City with an Alimontini
From VHS to Final Girl: Miranda Smith’s Smile for the Cameras
There’s only so much peacekeeping you can do when the past shows up wielding a weapon.
Vengeance by the Numbers in Riley Sager’s Latest Thriller
Riley Sager takes hold of a very real element of human nature to make his most recent locked-room mystery quite the treat: revenge.
The Detective As Mutual Aid
Mutual aid is a term we’ve been hearing a lot lately, as needs grow and services diminish.
Use Your Words!
What’s harder than writing a script? Writing everything else.
Foster Care, False Identities, and the Power of Story
The hardest parts of our story often become the ones that resonate the most.
Africa Scene: Leo
Focus on the story. Make it captivating. And let other people worry about its place on the ever-extending genre family tree.
Story Behind the Story:
One Last Swing
Before I know it, I’m in NYC, and I’m meeting other authors who are there to do the same thing as I am.
Behind the Covers: Bad Decisions Make Better Stories
Bad decisions. They’re needed to get our protagonists from the beginning to the end of each story, and the more terrible choices they make, the juicier the story becomes. But what about authors’ personal stories?
What Makes a Reader Buy Your Book?
It’s all part of being a writer: selling your book to readers.
Where the Dark Things Lurk
Blending genres using supernatural elements, Part 1
Crossing Genres: Three Authors on Risk, Reinvention, and Creative Freedom
What happens when writers leave their literary comfort zones?
Seven Pieces of Advice for the Aspiring Career Author
How do I transition from the excitement of being a debut to a long-term career as a writer?
Inspired By An Unhinged Moment: What’s Yours Is Mine
Nothing stirs up raw, unfiltered emotions quite like youth sports.
The Airplane That Tried to Kill Me (and other adventures in writing)
I really started writing fiction when a C-5 Galaxy decided to give me a bad day.
Rom-Com Mysteries to YA Thrillers: A Pipe Dream?
Could I create characters from three generations that readers would relate to?
Dark Waters, Darker Secrets:
5 Thrillers That Make a Splash
There’s something in the water in these dark, damp, and dangerous mysteries!
From VHS to Final Girl: Miranda Smith’s Smile for the Cameras
There’s only so much peacekeeping you can do when the past shows up wielding a weapon.