• Craft

    "Perception, self-deception, and truth": Soon Wiley Talks Craft and Character

    "When it comes to my characters, I almost always start with their desires."

    April 27, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity

    When the writing gets personal...

    April 27, 2022  By Alma Katsu
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    The State of the Crime Novel: A Roundtable With The Edgar Nominees

    Edgar Awards Nominees Reflect On How The Pandemic Has Changed Their Writing Lives

    April 26, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

    David Gordon on the long, rich history of private eyes – and why contemporary novelists keep on turning to them.

    April 26, 2022  By David Gordon
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    Michael Nava Remembers Dick Lipez, Who Wrote Pioneering Gay Mysteries As Richard Stevenson

    Dick Lipez (1938-2022), writing under the pen name of Richard Stevenson, wanted to "present a gay man as contented and not tortured."

    April 26, 2022  By Michael Nava
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    Parenting, Paranoia, and the Pandemic

    How lockdown helped one parent and author overcome fear and embrace living life to the fullest.

    April 25, 2022  By Samantha M. Bailey
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    Shop Talk: David Joy Hates Talking About Craft (But He's Going to Make an Exception)

    "It’s really a compulsion. I’d feel like I’d die if I didn’t get these stories out of me."

    April 21, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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    The Charming Mid-Century Murder Mysteries and Rich Interior Life of Edith Howie

    Howie's sleuths in her well-received proto-cozy crime novels always ended up together, but she herself stayed proudly single.

    April 21, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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    What Does Home Mean During A Pandemic?

    Contributors to the new Mystery Writers of America anthology "Crime Hits Home" reflect on its theme

    April 20, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    On Writing and Living True Crime

    "I never set out to be a journalist or a true crime writer, but given the central mystery of my childhood, perhaps it was inevitable."

    April 19, 2022  By Kim Powers
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