• Essays

    Eric Rickstad: Why I Needed to Write a Novel About Male Violence and Guns

    "We live in a small Vermont town. We all know each other. Why did we need to be buzzed in as if entering the Pentagon? Why was there this menacing sign?"

    March 22, 2024  By Eric Rickstad
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    Today's Authors Are Reviving the “Fair Play” Puzzle Plot Tradition 

    Gigi Pandian on the modern renaissance of a Golden Age legacy.

    March 21, 2024  By Gigi Pandian
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    Lifelong Trauma in a Psychological Thriller

    Nicci French on witnessing the toll of a trauma that will never relent – and the decision to bring it to a novel.

    March 20, 2024  By Nicci French
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    The Evolution of the Private Investigator in Historical Romance

    On crafting historically plausible detectives who are ready to woo your heroine

    March 18, 2024  By Elizabeth Everett
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    Looking Back on the 90s-Era Satanic Panic In a New Age of Conspiracy Theories

    On the "toxic Puritan cycle" that causes ordinary people to either embrace outlandish ideas or pathologize those who do

    March 15, 2024  By Maggie Thrash
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    A Seventh-Generation Nebraskan On Turning Family Tales and Omaha History into Historical Fiction

    On using history as a method of filling in the gaps from what's recorded and passed down

    March 15, 2024  By Chris Harding Thornton
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    Our Enduring Fascination with Criminal Couples

    From "Macbeth" to "Rope" to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," we've always been mesmerized by the immoral romantic

    March 14, 2024  By Joel H. Morris
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    Genre Communicates a Contract with the Reader

    "I will trick you, there will be death, but there will also be resolution...It is a game the reader can win."

    March 13, 2024  By Micaiah Johnson
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    'This "survivor’s guilt" isn’t my trauma—it’s my pride.'

    Ream Shukairy on the Syrian revolution, the ongoing Palestinian genocide, and the need to describe the indescribable.

    March 12, 2024  By Ream Shukairy
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    Lisa Gardner: 10 Lessons I Learned in 30 Years of Writing Suspense

    Always respect your readers. And never read the reviews!

    March 12, 2024  By Lisa Gardner
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