• Craft

    Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

    Finding a story's emotional truth.

    April 2, 2025  By Bryan Gruley
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    Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

    "[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."

    April 2, 2025  By Shalini Abeysekara
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    There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

    Why the Jim Thompson adage still holds true and is the key to good storytelling.

    March 28, 2025  By C.B. Everett
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    Chris Offutt on Outlaws, Scofflaws, and Kentucky Noir

    A conversation with the author of the new novel, 'The Reluctant Sheriff'

    March 26, 2025  By Alex Dueben
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    The Age of Discontentment: Tess Gerritsen on Senior Crime Solvers and Subverting Expectations

    The author discusses the latest novel in her new series, The Martini Club.

    March 26, 2025  By John B. Valeri
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    Bog Gothic, or "Bogothic": When Bogs Seep Into Literature

    "[B]ogs and bog bodies are excellent material for a thriller, mystery novel, or scary story."

    March 25, 2025  By Johanna Van Veen
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    How to Create a Character for Our (or Any Other) Unjust Time

    Ron Currie on writing fiction through a dark period.

    March 25, 2025  By Ron Currie
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    Great Middle Grade Mysteries for All Ages

    "When I thought about the readers I wanted to reach...I knew that a mystery was the way to grab them—and a series was the way to keep them reading."

    March 21, 2025  By Alyson Gerber
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    The Role of Family Secrets in Crime Novels and Thrillers

    How family histories and secrets serve as catalysts for criminal behavior and plot development.

    March 21, 2025  By January Gilchrist
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    Detections and Digressions:
    A Close Reading of P.D. James’ Devices and Desires

    James set out to capture British society more broadly than her predecessors, yet her novels had more in common with the Golden Age than she ever cared to admit

    March 20, 2025  By Curtis Evans
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