Craft

My First Thriller: Robert Dugoni

The bestselling author explains how he bounced around between jobs, agents and publishers, holding onto a dream, and eventually achieving it.

April 14, 2022  By Rick Pullen
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Gillian Flynn's Anti-Heroines And The Dark Side of Feminism

"[I]f women can be anything they want, then they can be terrible people too..."

April 14, 2022  By Laure Van Rensburg
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Carter Wilson: What I've Learned Through Hosting a Writing Podcast

"Looking back on the past year of interviews, here are seven things I've learned from these amazing writers."

April 14, 2022  By Carter Wilson
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Science Fiction For Crime Lovers: a Beginner’s Tour

Or, a look at five great scifi novels that also happen to be pitch-black noirs.

April 13, 2022  By Adam Oyebanji
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Argonne Forest Park, Then and Now

How Argonne Forest Park became a succor for veterans and the inspiration for a novel.

April 12, 2022  By Jess Montgomery
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For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

For historical mystery novelists like Stacie Murphy, research is an endless source of inspiration.

April 8, 2022  By Stacie Murphy
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Shop Talk: Kellye Garrett Finds a Character, Finds a Murder, and Starts Filling up the Notebooks

Crime writers talking craft, routine, and finding the perfect twist.

April 7, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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On Time Travel and Metafiction

Every time traveler has something they want to fix – and something they can't help but risk destroying.

April 6, 2022  By Rachel Barenbaum
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Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

Amanda Eyre Ward explains why keeping secrets is a writer's greatest craft tool.

April 6, 2022  By Amanda Eyre Ward
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Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

April 5, 2022  By Lisa Tuttle
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