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Craft
A Beginner's Guide to Using (and Exploding) Horror Tropes
"A trope can be as complex and metaphorical as a labyrinthine haunted house, or as a simple as the image of a bloody knife."
By
Eva V. Gibson
| July 11, 2022
Shop Talk: James Kestrel on Writing Novels During Lunch in Quiet Honolulu Bars
Crime writers talking writing routines, revision, and finding the right bar atmosphere for an epic crime novel.
By
Eli Cranor
| July 7, 2022
Southern Gothic Crime Fiction: A Palimpsest and Primer
Faye Snowden on the most American genre, which "makes visible problems we have with race, gender, economic inequality, [and] corrupt leadership..."
By
Faye Snowden
| July 6, 2022
Chris Cander Talks Neighborhood Insularity and Suburban Cruelty
Fellow Texas writer Jenny Staff Johnson interviews Cander about her new novel and the 1917 short story that forms its basis.
By
Jenny Staff Johnson
| July 5, 2022
Jason Starr on Satire, Alternate Realities, and Failing Marriages
Starr discusses his new reality-bending, Philip K. Dick inspired crime novel.
By
Scott Adlerberg
| July 1, 2022
Horror? Crime?
Both
? The Custody Battle Over Edgar Allan Poe
"In this custody battle, I’m afraid I side with our horror-writing brethren. Poe’s twisted soul is the horror genre."
By
Jeffrey B. Burton
| June 30, 2022
Best Reviewed
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The Challenge of Coloring Inside the Lines
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Ann McMan
| June 30, 2022
My Poison Snake: Erika Kobayashi on Growing Up in a Household of Sherlock Translators
By
Erika Kobayashi
| June 29, 2022
We Need More Crime Novels In Which Women Make Choices About Reproduction
By
Molly Odintz
| June 28, 2022
Why Samantha Allen Wrote A Lesbian Sasquatch Novel
"If what I ostensibly wanted to do was let my imagination wander away from fact, I might as well let it roam as far afield as it could."
By
Samantha Allen
| June 28, 2022
On Nightmare Noir, Science Fiction, and the Lure of the Gothic
Gothic tropes informed much of the earliest science fiction, and now the gothic provides a fruitful path between genres.
By
Eddie Robson
| June 28, 2022
7 Tips For Creating Pace and Propulsion in Psychological Thrillers
Lucy Clarke on finding your novel's perfect rhythm
By
Lucy Clarke
| June 28, 2022
Death Goes Drag: How the Queer Experiences of Mystery Writers Rufus King and Clifford Orr Influenced Their Golden Age Detective Fiction
Skilled at switching gender roles in masquerade, King and Orr translated their college drag experiences into queer-coded fiction.
By
Curtis Evans
| June 23, 2022
On Writing Unlikeable Characters
(And Falling in Love with Them)
By
Kate Williams
| June 23, 2022
In Defense of Unsympathetic Protagonists
Jon Bassoff on Camus, Thompson, Highsmith, and a long line of authors writing protagonists who win bring us to the dark side.
By
Jon Bassoff
| June 22, 2022
Richard O'Rawe Talks Craft, Crime, and Irish History
"[W]hether you’re writing a heist book, or a thriller, the thought process is the same."
By
Molly Odintz
| June 21, 2022
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