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    Lost Grandeur: Decaying Settings in Fiction         

    "There’s just something about the feeling of a place that has been deeply neglected..."

    April 9, 2025  By C.J. Dotson
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    Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

    Zee Carlstrom on writing more interesting characters.

    April 9, 2025  By Zee Carlstrom
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    Belinda Bauer On Obsession, Greed, and the Dangerous World of Rare Egg Trafficking

    "[E]very word is fighting for space on the page and on the screen...I get in, I say what I need to, and I get out."

    April 9, 2025  By Jenny Bartoy
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    Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

    "I can’t fathom writing a story that doesn’t have some romance element to it."

    April 8, 2025  By Molly Harper
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    Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

    "There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US fiction."

    April 8, 2025  By Tariq Ashkanani
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    Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

    Bruen wrote unflinchingly of the darkest parts of society, and his Jack Taylor series was the epitome of noir style.

    April 7, 2025  By Scott Montgomery
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    High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

    "Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

    April 7, 2025  By Matt Plass
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    April 7, 2025  By CrimeReads 
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    A Quest for a Loyal Dracula Adaptation

    A fan's cry for textual accuracy

    April 4, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    ‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

    Tales from the world of resurgent interest in those midcentury magazines with outlandish headlines and legions of readers.

    April 4, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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