Magic words
At the start of every year, I like to pick a word that will be the theme for that year.[…]
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Month: December 2024
Writing the Culinary Mystery: Recipes for Death and Detection
With or without the addition of poisonous compounds, fabulous meals and delicious desserts have a long history in crime fiction.[…]
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Six Suggestions For Creative Prompts The two most frequent questions I receive as an author are, “What is your writing[…]
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Five Things I Need in Order to Write
I wonder what five things Shakespeare would say he needed in order to write—or Jane Austen or Edgar Allen Poe? They’d probably narrow it down to a pen and a brain. Allowing for changing tastes in literature, the craft of writing is much the same as it’s always been, but the mechanics of it have changed so dramatically I suspect the writers of the past, seeing my writing space, would be speechless. I’m speechless, imagining what it would be like to write a whole novel by hand with a quill pen. I’m glad I’m writing in the modern world. With that in mind, here are five things I need in order to write:
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Merry Everything – that’s all.
We were recently in Southeast Asia. One of the highlights for me was the street art in George Town, Malaysia.[…]
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Crafting True Crime: Trial by Ambush
For our readers, a Christmas present from the incomparable John Valeri, host of Central Booking podcast, a writer, readers and[…]
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How Reading Across Genres Has Made Me a Better Writer
As writers, we are instructed to read widely within our genres. The advice is solid. We need to understand what[…]
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Writing with Intentionality
I’m about to start the final edit of my very messy manuscript of Blood of the Innocents, the fifth NYPD Detective[…]
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The Mystery Cure
Have you been craving stories about serial killers lately? Me too! And it turns out there are reasons for that.[…]
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