• Craft

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    Everything you wanted to know about changing diapers and solving fictional murders but were afraid to ask.

    March 2, 2020  By Jason Pinter
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    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    On growing up in the Bronx, and spinning stories in the basement.

    February 28, 2020  By Robert Desiderio
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    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.

    February 27, 2020  By Darcy Coates
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    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

    February 25, 2020  By Gary Phillips
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    The Life and Work of C.W. Grafton: Crime Novelist, Lawyer, and Father to a Mystery Icon

    He's remembered now as the father of Sue Grafton. But for a brief period, he was one of crime fiction's most promising authors.

    February 21, 2020  By L. Wayne Hicks
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    Two Authors Talk Psychological Thrillers, Motherhood, and Maine

    A Conversation Between Mary Kubica and Megan Miranda

    February 18, 2020  By Mary Kubica
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    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

    Some narrators go beyond unreliability and change our very conception of narrative storytelling.

    February 17, 2020  By Michael Seidlinger
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    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.

    February 12, 2020  By Steph Post
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    Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

    In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.

    February 11, 2020  By Kelly Braffet
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    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

    February 7, 2020  By Christina McDonald
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