Writing for an Anthology
About a year ago, writer/editor Rob Lopresti asked me if I’d be interested in writing a story for his anthology[…]
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Author: Susan Breen
Susan Breen is the author of The Fiction Class and the Maggie Dove mystery series. Her short stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
How do book clubs choose?
The other day I read about a book club that chose only books with one word titles. That’s good news[…]
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None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
When you’ve been a writing teacher for as long as I have, it’s impossible to read a novel, especially a[…]
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How to Write a Mystery
Over the next few days, I’ll be teaching a class on “How to Write a Mystery” at the Cape Cod[…]
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New Dealmakers
Publishers Marketplace, an on-line resource about the publishing industry, features many wonderful bits of information. One of them is a[…]
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Perseverance
The first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
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An interview with Elizabeth Crowens
Award-winning novelist Elizabeth Crowens has kindly stopped by to answer some questions about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Sherlock Holmes[…]
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Why do we write?
Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
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A new conference
I’ve been addicted to short stories since reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery.” Although only 3,400 words long, that story has[…]
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