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My First Thriller: S.A. Cosby

My First Thriller: S.A. Cosby

The making of a crime fiction sensation.

By Rick Pullen | November 3, 2022

Simenon in America

Simenon in America

How Georges Simenon escaped a reckoning at the end of WWII by fleeing to the United States.

By Gregory Galloway | November 3, 2022

What Is It About the Wilderness That Lures Writers?

What Is It About the Wilderness That Lures Writers?

"Nature isn’t merely a setting in these novels, but a force that propels the story forward."

By Laura Griffin | November 3, 2022

On Abortion, Murder, and Patriarchal Definitions

On Abortion, Murder, and Patriarchal Definitions

"Abortion is freedom. Without authority over our own internal organs, we become the property of the state the moment we become pregnant."

By Meghan Joyce Tozer | November 2, 2022

History Is Shouting…All You Need to Do Is Listen

History Is Shouting…All You Need to Do Is Listen

"What could a story set in 1913 have to say about life in 2022?" Plenty!

By Laura Ann Gilman | November 2, 2022

Four Books to Try to Understand Why Children Kill

Four Books to Try to Understand Why Children Kill

"[T]he quest to understand the reasons for violence in the young is not one that offers easy answers..."

By Lisa Ballantyne | November 2, 2022

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On The Morality of Immorality

By Jennifer Lynn Alvarez | November 1, 2022

What Can We Learn From A 1794 Novel About Turning Points In Crime Fiction?

By Heather Redmond | November 1, 2022

Erika T. Wurth on Writing Native Horror During a Horror Renaissance

By Erika T. Wurth | October 31, 2022

Reviving the Restoration: How I Choose Locations for My Historical Thrillers

Reviving the Restoration: How I Choose Locations for My Historical Thrillers

Modern London offers plenty of inspiration to the historical novelist tracing the paths of yore.

By Robert Lloyd | October 28, 2022

What's Fall without a Cozy Mystery?

What's Fall without a Cozy Mystery?

Or, the hygge guide to autumn reading.

By Christin Brecher | October 28, 2022

Why I Write Feminist Fairy Tales

Why I Write Feminist Fairy Tales

Or, how I gave up on "having it all" and found a new truth in writing darkness.

By Menna Van Praag | October 27, 2022

The Very Human Horrors of Paul Tremblay

The Very Human Horrors of Paul Tremblay

In Tremblay's fiction, people are forced to reckon with terrifying new realities while trying to hang onto their humanity.

By Brenna Ehrlich | October 26, 2022

A Writer Confronts the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

A Writer Confronts the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

Or, why I was afraid to bring my daughter to Alabama

By Ousmane Power-Green | October 25, 2022

Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s Cult Classic, <em>House of Psychotic Women</em>, Ten Years Later

Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s Cult Classic, House of Psychotic Women, Ten Years Later

“Every woman who enjoys horror films has at some point felt the need to explain herself.”

By Elizabeth Horkley | October 24, 2022

The Big Sleep and The Black Cat

The Big Sleep and The Black Cat

Or, searching for queer culture in the era of hard-boiled fiction.

By Lev AC Rosen | October 24, 2022

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