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    Writing Genre: Bending Stories that Integrate Romance, Fantasy, and Mystery

    Writing Genre: Bending Stories that Integrate Romance, Fantasy, and Mystery

    Lana Harper on blurring the boundaries between genres

    By Lana Harper | May 27, 2022

    Why I Quit Writing Screenplays and Wrote a Novel

    Why I Quit Writing Screenplays and Wrote a Novel

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    By P. David Ebersole | May 27, 2022

    Representation Matters, or, a Story in Edits

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    An Interview With Tim Maskell, Location Manager for <em>Shetland</em>

    An Interview With Tim Maskell, Location Manager for Shetland

    “The stories of Shetland are impossible to imagine apart from their setting, steeped as they are in the islands’ brooding skies, barren landscape, and ever-present sea.”

    By Frederick Weisel | May 23, 2022

    How Do You Decolonize the Golden Age Mystery? Read More Historical Fiction!

    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."

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    The Pandemic: Inspiration and Injury to Writers

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    Bosch Is Back — But Can <em>Bosch: Legacy</em> Find the Original's Sunbaked Noir Magic?

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    John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee Novels, Ranked

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