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Hemingway’s Tips for Writers

Happy 2025! As many of us start new writing projects, I came across these seven tips for writers from Ernest[…]

With or without the addition of poisonous compounds, fabulous meals and delicious desserts have a long history in crime fiction.[…]

Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. Today we’re asking Lynda Allen, author[…]

I decided this year to challenge myself as a writer, and am attempting a stand alone historical between my Nora[…]

The banner shows a modern autopsy table. If your crime book contains an autopsy scene, you want to get it[…]

(Image Credit: Reuters) In September, 2024, Lebanon was rocked when the batteries inside pagers and walkie talkies purchased by the[…]

How risky is it to kill off a main character? I’ll never forget the day Helen Clyde died.

When you’ve been a writing teacher for as long as I have, it’s impossible to read a novel, especially a[…]

Since contributing an essay to the book The Who, The What and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks[…]

And how to pickle them I’ve always had a rather foggy idea of what a red herring was, but I[…]