• Craft

    How Bad Can The Good Guys Be?

    There are very few genuinely 'good' characters anymore. But how far can you take their actions before they morph into villains?

    February 11, 2021  By Sylvain Neuvel
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    The Four Types of Time Travel (And What They Say About Ourselves and the World Around Us)

    A science fiction author breaks down the building blocks of time travel, from seeing into the future to traveling into the past.

    February 10, 2021  By Dan Frey
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    The Future of Police Procedurals

    What is the responsibility—and the path forward—for authors writing crime fiction about police?

    February 5, 2021  By Michael Kaufman
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    Zoë Lund and the Dialectical Method of Bad Lieutenant

    Lund's legacy as a writer is overshadowed by the heroin, her looks, and her collaborators. But a closer study of her writing methods reveals genius at work.

    February 4, 2021  By Chris McGinley
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    Jane Harper: The Australian Crime Author Everyone Seems to Be Reading

    Since her breakout debut, The Dry, Harper has become an international sensation. Expect much more to come.

    February 3, 2021  By Daneet Steffens
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    In Psychological Thrillers, The Abyss Stares Back

    How psychological thrillers allow us a glimpse into the unexplored universes of the mind.

    February 3, 2021  By Sebastian Fitzek
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    Jonathan Kellerman Wants to Know Why Crime Fiction Has Such a Hard Time with Mental Health Professionals

    Forty years later, many of the shrink clichés persist. The creator of the Alex Delaware series asks, why?

    February 2, 2021  By Jonathan Kellerman
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    Now, More Than Ever, Is the Time for 'Escapist Fiction'

    The need for escape over the past year has blurred the lines of an already hazy demarcation between literature and genre fiction.

    February 1, 2021  By V. M. Burns
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    How Do You Write an Isolation Thriller When Everyone Is Connected All of the Time?

    A classic thriller trope may be on its way to retirement.

    January 29, 2021  By Zoje Stage
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    My First Thriller: Randy Wayne White

    How he went from guiding fishing clients to writing magazine columns to creating Doc Ford and a bestselling series of novels.

    January 28, 2021  By Rick Pullen
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