• Craft

    Gossip Girl, But Make It a Thriller

    "The wealth on display in a drama like Gossip Girl is sometimes absurd but always enticing...by contrast, the wealth on display in a thriller can feel menacing."

    October 19, 2022  By Ann Liang
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    A Doctor, A Deduction, and A Death Averted

    How doctor and writer Simon Stephenson's love for Sherlock Holmes helped him save his mother's life.

    October 19, 2022  By Simon Stephenson
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    Dead Men Do Talk Back: Taking Inspiration from the Film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"

    Or, on listening to the voices in our heads.

    October 18, 2022  By Cleo Coyle
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    Briana Cole on Sex, Psychological Thrillers, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

    "I wanted to touch on how we can hide behind this image or identity of what we want to present to people, sometimes masking our true selves from others..."

    October 17, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    On Writing A Five Book Series That Can Be Read In Any Order

    Lee Matthew Goldberg on the art of writing a series in which each can be read as a standalone.

    October 17, 2022  By Lee Matthew Goldberg
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    Thrillers Featuring Characters with Memory Disorders

    How realistic are these recent psychological thrillers? A scientist and crime writer considers.

    October 14, 2022  By Bradeigh Godfrey
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    5 Uniquely Chicanx/Latinx Representations in Crime Fiction

    These novels by writers from historically marginalized communities create rendezvous-points of cultural negotiation by appropriating major commercial genres.

    October 13, 2022  By Christopher David Rosales
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    Get Some Perspective: How Crime Novels Use POV to Reveal Their True Mysteries

    Adam Hamdy on the delicate craft of perspective in suspense

    October 11, 2022  By Adam Hamdy
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    The Literary Blood Feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald

    Or, The Way Some Crime Writers Decry...

    October 7, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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    Using Fear to Fuel My Fiction

    Amy Christine Parker on the creative impact of fear on a fertile imagination.

    October 7, 2022  By Amy Christine Parker
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