• Craft

    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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    Chris Cander Talks Neighborhood Insularity and Suburban Cruelty

    Fellow Texas writer Jenny Staff Johnson interviews Cander about her new novel and the 1917 short story that forms its basis.

    July 5, 2022  By Jenny Staff Johnson
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    Jason Starr on Satire, Alternate Realities, and Failing Marriages

    Starr discusses his new reality-bending, Philip K. Dick inspired crime novel.

    July 1, 2022  By Scott Adlerberg
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    Horror? Crime? Both? The Custody Battle Over Edgar Allan Poe

    "In this custody battle, I’m afraid I side with our horror-writing brethren. Poe’s twisted soul is the horror genre."

    June 30, 2022  By Jeffrey B. Burton
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    The Challenge of Coloring Inside the Lines

    "[W]ithin the exercise of recrafting these well-known tropes, what possibilities for variation exist?"

    June 30, 2022  By Ann McMan
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    My Poison Snake: Erika Kobayashi on Growing Up in a Household of Sherlock Translators

    "Papa and Mama would debate endlessly the best way to transliterate “Watson” into Japanese...Meanwhile, my sisters and I would discuss various ways to die..."

    June 29, 2022  By Erika Kobayashi
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