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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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Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
Read moreI’ve been addicted to short stories since reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery.” Although only 3,400 words long, that story has[…]
Read moreA mystery is only as good as its villain. Have you ever heard that quote? I think it’s really good[…]
Read moreEarlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]
Read moreLast year, the ten winners of the prestigious Emirate Literary Fellowship came to Gotham Writers in NYC, where I work.[…]
Read moreOne of the great pleasures of going to London, (which is where I am now), is that you have the[…]
Read moreSo you’ve waited until the last minute to buy your gifts. Or you have one of those impossible people on[…]
Read moreYou know how it is when you need to post a blog on Monday (today). But first comes Thanksgiving, which[…]
Read moreThere are a lot of literary agents out there. AgentQuery lists more than 950 who represent mysteries. But, many of[…]
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