4 MUST WATCH TRIALS FOR CRIME WRITERS
Previously, I blogged about four criminal cases crime writers should watch if they wanted to see first-hand the world[…]
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Month: January 2024
International Mystery-Writing Conferences
Last year, the ten winners of the prestigious Emirate Literary Fellowship came to Gotham Writers in NYC, where I work.[…]
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The Dreary Days of Winter and Dogs in Mystery Books
I’m sitting here working on my couch with my dog Molly on my lap—which as you can imagine makes it[…]
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Pea-Soup Fog & Monkey Glands: Ten Reasons Why Victorian England is the Perfect Setting for Murder
“Sexual repression, dark alleys, great detectives, ornate prose,” says author James McCreet (“Why we all love a Victorian Murder,” The Guardian, 15 May 2011). “No wonder the 19th century is our template for crime fiction. A murder is somehow more quintessentially English when committed on the cobbles of a foggy East End alley. If there’s a silhouetted top hat, a rustle of crinoline and a scream cut short with straight razor, all the better.”
I couldn’t agree more. Here are my Top Ten Reasons why Victorian England is the perfect setting for murder:
Martin Edwards on the “impossible crime” in The White Priory Murders
For a Happy New Years gift, the wonderful and prolific Martin Edwards, crime novelist, savior of vintage crime, and one[…]
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What Mystery Conventions Are You Going To in 2024?
Last year was spectacular for crime fiction conventions. Left Coast Crime in Tuscon, Arizona, was like living in a dream state.
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If you love a word, set it free
We’re writers and readers so of course we love words. Maybe too much sometimes? I remember a New Yorker cartoon[…]
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5 Ways To Check if the Time is Right for Your Novel
For the past year and change I’ve worked on a new novel. I loved the story. I loved writing it.[…]
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Librarians and Banned Books
I was asked to submit a short story for an anthology celebrating librarians and writing it got me thinking about…you[…]
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A WRITER’S CONFESSION
I have been taking some classes in Irish literature recently and am discovering wonderful new writers. One of them[…]
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