• Craft

    Shop Talk: Lisa Unger on Waking Up Early, Carving Out Time, and Writing Longhand in the Target Parking Lot

    Crime writers talking routine, discipline, and what it takes to write a book every year.

    June 2, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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    The Mystery of Subtext: An Appreciation

    "[L]ook for the clues the author has left behind in the images and in the subtext..."

    June 2, 2022  By Susan Speranza
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    Writing Genre: Bending Stories that Integrate Romance, Fantasy, and Mystery

    Lana Harper on blurring the boundaries between genres

    May 27, 2022  By Lana Harper
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    Why I Quit Writing Screenplays and Wrote a Novel

    "A book lives on a bookshelf, in a book store, placed next to books by other writers, and the only collaboration is the one between the writer and the reader."

    May 27, 2022  By P. David Ebersole
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    Representation Matters, or, a Story in Edits

    On word choice and whiteness in publishing.

    May 26, 2022  By Sandra S. G. Wong
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    What Really Distinguishes a Crime Novel?

    Megan Abbott, S.A. Cosby, Laura Lippman, and Ace Atkins share their thoughts with Polly Stewart.

    May 25, 2022  By Polly Stewart
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    James Lee Burke on Personal Tragedy, National Trauma, and the Search for Salvation

    "The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."

    May 24, 2022  By David Masciotra
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    The Most Unforgettable Female Leads in Crime Fiction

    "Whether good, bad, or downright despicable, here are eleven of them you should be getting to know..."

    May 24, 2022  By Hannah Mary McKinnon
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    On Gentrification, Cultural Appropriation, and Community

    "More than ever, people of color are fighting back to reclaim what has been stolen from us."

    May 23, 2022  By Rodrigo Ribera d'Ebre
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    How Do You Decolonize the Golden Age Mystery? Read More Historical Fiction!

    "Our view of any age is limited by what the writers of that age can see of it, and no writer ever has access to all of it at once."

    May 20, 2022  By Christopher Huang
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