• Craft

    Musician and Author Don Bruns On Putting Together A Music-Themed Anthology

    "Where did I get friendly enough to ask these elites to contribute to Hotel California? At the Hotel Bar."

    July 18, 2022  By Don Bruns
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    Caves, Cellars, Crawl Spaces: The Power of Dark Passages in Suspense Fiction

    "[C]aves, basements, and crawl spaces are our ways of visualizing the dark places within our own minds."

    July 18, 2022  By Margot Harrison
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    Exploring the Complexity of Love Through Crafting A Criminal Family 

    "I knew what it was like for my family to love me, but also do and say things that hurt me too."

    July 15, 2022  By Alex Temblador
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    Susie Steiner: An Appreciation

    On the author of the Manon Bradshaw novels who passed away earlier this month.

    July 14, 2022  By Frederick Weisel
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    Theater and Other
    Criminal Acts

    What famous crime stories and films borrow from theater

    July 13, 2022  By Ann Aptaker
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    Trying To Do Too Much? Don't.

    Rachel Howzell Hall has some tips for how to relax, avoid burnout, and reset your creative gears.

    July 12, 2022  By Rachel Howzell Hall
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    On Dead Girls and Feminism in Horror

    "[F]eminist horror allows women to crawl out of their own victimhood and presents a story about the complexities of female terror."

    July 12, 2022  By Katrina Monroe
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    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."

    July 11, 2022  By Eva V. Gibson
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    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.

    July 7, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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    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..."

    July 6, 2022  By Faye Snowden
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