• Craft

    Liz Lawson and Kathleen Glasgow On Crafting YA Mysteries

    Two co-authors talk young adult fiction and the art of plotting.

    June 12, 2023  By Liz Lawson and Kathleen Glasgow
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    How Being Called a Plagiarist Made Me a Writer

    "How could I find my voice, one that no one could claim was someone else’s?"

    June 12, 2023  By Siena Sterling
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    My First Thriller: D.P. Lyle

    He was a cardiologist who dreamed of becoming a writer. Finally, he went for it.

    June 8, 2023  By Rick Pullen
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    Ivy Pochoda on Women, Violence, and the Power of Crime Stories

    "We forgive violent women if their violence is inspired by some original male violence, but we cannot deal with violent women who are violent under their own sail."

    June 8, 2023  By Matthew Coleman Turbeville
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    Historical Research as Procedural

    "[H]istorical research can offer a crime writer their own experience of investigation."

    June 8, 2023  By Katharine Beutner
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    How The Homes of My Past Continue To Haunt My Life

    "There it is—the familiar clink of a key in its lock. The scrape of metal on metal. A hot blast of air on my face."

    June 6, 2023  By Adorah Nworah
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    S.A. Cosby on Inspiration, Serial Killers, and How He Writes

    A conversation with the author of 'All the Sinners Bleed'

    June 6, 2023  By Nick Kolakowski
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    125 Years Later, Why The Turn of the Screw Still Haunts Us

    "That queasy opacity is at the heart of the novella’s power...The reader is never sure what, exactly, is happening."

    June 5, 2023  By Kate Griffin
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    Megan Abbott on Dreams, Dangers, and Going to Strange Places in Her Newest Novel

    In 'Beware the Woman,' a pregnant woman travels to a remote stretch of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

    May 30, 2023  By Dwyer Murphy
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    The Origin of the Red Herring and its Place in Literature

    Liv Constantine on a tried and true literary device

    May 23, 2023  By Liv Constantine
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