It’s a Mystery: Why I Love Criticism
When I wrote “the end” on the first fiction I’d ever written, I asked my wife to read it. She’s[…]
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Author: Catherine Maiorisi
Grabbing Mystery Plots from the Headlines
Read about it in the newspapers or see it on TV news and a few weeks later you’re watching a[…]
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A Mystery with a Detective Team
Recently I’ve taken a step back from the cycle of writing, editing and marketing to get some perspective. And I[…]
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Less is More
I was cleaning out some files recently and I came across an article I’d cut out from the New York[…]
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March Giveaway
For the entire month of March, comment on this post for a chance to win a copy of Catherine Maiorisi’s[…]
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Question of the Week: Conferences
Catherine In some ways the pandemic has had little impact on me. I’m an introvert. Other than dinner or lunch[…]
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Writing in Multiple Genres: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
You think of me as a mystery writer, right? But I also write romances. And I’d never read a romance before I accidently wrote one.
Sounds silly right? When I started writing my first NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery, I thought Corelli’s love interest, Brett Cummings, was a man. But when I was writing the scene where they meet, the Brett who showed up on the page, was a woman. I was shocked. I tried changing her back to the man I intended but once she was on stage, I couldn’t go back.
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On Becoming a Writer of Fiction
When I challenged myself to write a novel, I had never written a single word of fiction. And though I’d[…]
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