• Craft

    The Power of Process: Getting to Know Characters by Watching Them Work

    On the biggest difference between 'Breaking Bad' and 'Ozark', and why portraying work is such a powerful tool.

    May 24, 2021  By Christian Cantrell
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    Cozy Mysteries Featuring Delicious (and Doable) Recipes

    "The trouble with writing culinary cozies is that people don’t just read the recipes, they make them. Which means the author had better be sure they taste good."

    May 24, 2021  By Krista Davis
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    Why Crime Fiction Is The Perfect Expression of Slavic Melancholy

    "Every Russian literary work is a crime novel"

    May 21, 2021  By Yelena Moskovich
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    Shop Talk: Megan Abbott Drinks Two Diet Cokes, Makes Weird Choices, and Keeps on Writing

    Crime writers talking novels, scripts, and tchotchkes

    May 20, 2021  By Eli Cranor
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    Serious Trouble: Writing Character Driven Thrillers

    "Knowing your character well is the key to unlocking your novel’s structure, the rope that foists you out of the dark pit."

    May 20, 2021  By Elizabeth Brundage
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    The Art of Writing About Psychopaths: A Roundtable

    Caroline Kepnes, Naben Ruthnum, Edwin Hill, Caroline Louise Walker, Joanna Schaffhausen, and Lisa Levy break down the many psychopaths who populate our worlds, fictional and otherwise.

    May 19, 2021  By Lisa Levy
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    On Murder, Metafiction, and Mashups

    "All art is in conversation with what’s come before, and the artist’s job is to keep the conversation going: take something that sparked her interest, add to it and change it, then pass it along."

    May 19, 2021  By Daryl Gregory
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    What Can Fiction Do For True Stories That True Crime Can't? In An Answer: Empathy

    "While the "True" with a capital "T" aspect of true crime certainly has its appeal, fiction remains valuable in its ability to magnify reality and delve into the emotional truth."

    May 17, 2021  By Sadie Hoagland
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    Finding Inspiration for Fiction In the Kindness of Untruths

    "My own situation helped me create a character who might tell that kind of lie. Inspiration sprang from real life."

    May 13, 2021  By Anne Hillerman
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    I Owe You My Childishness: An Author's Defense of Escapism, Fun, and Generally Licentious Behavior in Thrillers

    For Aidan Truhen, now is the time for morally disimproving books.

    May 13, 2021  By Aidan Truhen
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