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‘WRITER ZOO’

AN AUTHOR IN AN ENCLOSURE

April 20, 2026

Rejected?

Here’s How To ‘Friction-Maxx’ Your Thriller Into A Better Book

April 16, 2026

How to Smash Writer’s Block

Bestselling Authors Share Difficult Moments at the Keyboard and How They Broke Through

April 16, 2026

I Was About To Give Up On Getting Published

Then Seven Words Changed My Mind

April 14, 2026

What to Do When You’re Totally Stalled

Like many authors, I dreamed of writing a novel from the time I was really young.

March 13, 2026

Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Was an Aspiring Author

When I started writing, I didn’t know any of the rules.

March 13, 2026

We Can Solve Our Own Problems

Writing Native Women as Heroes

March 13, 2026

The Royal Scam

On the epidemics in our in-boxes, and why we fall for them.

March 10, 2026

A Scammer Spent Six Weeks Pretending to Be Me

Here’s How Close It Came to Working

March 9, 2026

The Revolving Bookcase

In writer life, the drawing room is your public face, conferences and festivals and socials, oh my.

February 13, 2026

The Ghost in the Machine Has No Instincts

By Eric Van Lustbader I’ve spent half a century writing about field agents—men and women who operate in that shadow

February 13, 2026

Social Media and Me

Social media has been one of the most consistent driving forces behind my success.

January 23, 2026

The Road Warriors

Every writer dreams of touring.
I know I did.

January 22, 2026

The Road Not Taken

Decisions in Publishing that We Agonize Over Right Before Falling Asleep

December 15, 2025

Crossing Genres: Three Authors on Risk, Reinvention, and Creative Freedom

What happens when writers leave their literary comfort zones?

November 24, 2025

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?

November 24, 2025

Inspired By An Unhinged Moment: What’s Yours Is Mine

Nothing stirs up raw, unfiltered emotions quite like youth sports.

October 16, 2025

Story Behind the Story: The Girl in Cell A

Why do we Brits keep writing America?

October 15, 2025

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.

October 14, 2025

Rom-Com Mysteries to YA Thrillers: A Pipe Dream?

Could I create characters from three generations that readers would relate to?

October 10, 2025

I Do…Or I Did It?

The honeymoon’s over in these books about marital disharmony…

October 9, 2025

Dark Waters, Darker Secrets:
5 Thrillers That Make a Splash

There’s something in the water in these dark, damp, and dangerous mysteries!

October 8, 2025

The Divorce Party by M.M. Deluca

Celebrating freedom in Sin City with an Alimontini

October 7, 2025

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.

October 1, 2025

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