Dexter Creator Dreams up a New Antihero By April Snellings When faced with the dreaded question to which every novelist …
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Accidental Spies (and Spy Novelists) By April Snellings If you want proof of the thriller genre’s remarkable elasticity,…
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Refuelling the Creative Well By Dawn Ius Patricia Cornwell has spent almost a quarter century in a literary morgue, carv…
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Tackling a Story That’s a Little Too Timely By April Snellings [Note: The following piece contains spoilers for the Gran…
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The Fine Line Between Psychological Thriller and Horror By April Snellings In Riley Sager’s LOCK EVERY DOOR, a young wom…
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Mastering the Thriller Craft By Dawn Ius In the opening scene of John Sandford’s new thriller NEON PREY, Deese—a thin, r…
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An Overnight Success, 13 Years in the Making By April Snellings Considering that few readers had heard of Liv Constantin…
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Weaving the Hidden History of a Girl Most Likely By Alex Segura If you’re a fan of hardboiled fiction or comics, the nam…
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The Jack and Jill You’re Looking For By Allison Brennan I have a rule: I read every book I blurb. The problem is that I …
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Discovering the Secrets of a Legend By Nancy Bilyeau While it may seem that the vampire novel has been drained of every …
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Exploring the State Between Asleep and Awake By Dawn Ius “Between the dreams of night and day, there is not so great a d…
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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…
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Finding Trust in the Truth By Josie Brown If you’re a novelist, the best way to make lemonade from a lemon of a non-fict…
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A Dangerous Search for the Truth By J. H. Bográn A popular plotting device among authors is to ask, “What if…?” and th…
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Discovery of the “Real” Lolita By Nancy Bilyeau When discussing a novel, many an author will be only too happy to cite …
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An Artful Pairing By Dawn Ius New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and M.J. Rose turn up the heat with a new n…
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The Secrets to Humanizing a Detective By Dawn Ius Fresh off the promotion trail of his first literary thriller, The Extr…
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Into the Wild By Dawn Ius Jenny Milchman doesn’t write to formula, but admits that each of her novels share commonalitie…
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Trying to Understand the World By Nancy Bilyeau Someone might assume that when Walter Mosley sits down to write a novel—…
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Setting the Bar High By April Snellings It’s a scenario that has played out again and again in recent months: a promine…
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Creating a Character That Strikes a Chord By R.G. Belsky The New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Linc…
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A Setting Most Deadly By Alex Segura Some might think that an author of Nelson DeMille’s caliber, one who has consistent…
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Writing Books to Be Proud Of By R.G. Belsky It was 30 years ago that Scott Turow’s blockbuster debut legal thriller Pres…
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Thrillers in the Real World By Nancy Bilyeau What is ARARAT? It’s a high-octane thriller, set on the real-life Mount Ara…