• Craft

    Melissa de la Cruz on Writing a Book About Missing White Woman Syndrome

    "[I]t’s my hope that one day as a society we come to a place where attention is paid to every victim, not just the ones who leave picture-perfect images online."

    February 27, 2023  By Melissa de la Cruz
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    What’s in the Shadows?

    What Artists like Monet, Renoir, Jacob Lawrence, and Other Masters Teach Mystery Writers about Crafting Villains

    February 22, 2023  By Patricia Raybon
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    Building Worlds and Creating Mood and Atmosphere

    Good descriptions are vibrant and evocative–but not distracting or flippant.

    February 21, 2023  By Lucy Snyder
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    Why Mariah Fredericks Is Taking on the Lindbergh Kidnapping – From the Nanny's Perspective

    A new historical novel shines a new light on one of the world's most notorious crimes.

    February 17, 2023  By Nancie Clare
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    Favorite Mysteries and Thrillers Featuring Antiheroes

    These characters will stop at nothing to get what they want, and you can't help but root for them to do so...

    February 16, 2023  By Rachel Koller Croft
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    Why So Many Journalists Turn to Careers in Crime Fiction

    Michael Robotham on the journey from crime reporter to novelist

    February 14, 2023  By Michael Robotham
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    The Many Levels of Mystery: ‘Whodunnit?’ to ‘Whydunnit?’ and Beyond

    "There is mystery and then there is Mystery."

    February 10, 2023  By Daniel Taylor
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    Sympathy for the Specter

    Or, why ghosts should inspire more pity than fear.

    February 9, 2023  By Johnny Compton
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    How Writing a Genderfluid Mystery Helped Me Understand Myself as Genderqueer

    "It took a fictional character in a novel to allow a real part of myself to live and breathe."

    February 9, 2023  By Jennifer Savran Kelly
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    The Accidental Culinary Cozy Author

    "[D]escribing Cajun cuisine in my Cajun Country Mystery series made me hungry and I thought it might have the same effect on readers..."

    February 8, 2023  By Ellen Byron
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