• Craft

    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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    We Need More Crime Novels In Which Women Make Choices About Reproduction

    On reproductive choice, medical necessity, and breaking the law.

    June 28, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    Why Samantha Allen Wrote A Lesbian Sasquatch Novel

    "If what I ostensibly wanted to do was let my imagination wander away from fact, I might as well let it roam as far afield as it could."

    June 28, 2022  By Samantha Allen
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    On Nightmare Noir, Science Fiction, and the Lure of the Gothic

    Gothic tropes informed much of the earliest science fiction, and now the gothic provides a fruitful path between genres.

    June 28, 2022  By Eddie Robson
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    7 Tips For Creating Pace and Propulsion in Psychological Thrillers

    Lucy Clarke on finding your novel's perfect rhythm

    June 28, 2022  By Lucy Clarke
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    Death Goes Drag: How the Queer Experiences of Mystery Writers Rufus King and Clifford Orr Influenced Their Golden Age Detective Fiction

    Skilled at switching gender roles in masquerade, King and Orr translated their college drag experiences into queer-coded fiction.

    June 23, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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