Five Tips for Writing a Suspense Novel The pops of an old house settling. The creak of a door. The haunting silence of being alone. These are some of my favorite sounds, so choosing to write suspense wasn’t a stretch for me when I decided to give penning a novel a go. Over the years, […]
The VERY Fine Line Between Fiction and Reality… I’ve been obsessed with true-crime books since I read Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi as a twelve-year-old. (For the one person out there who doesn’t know, the book is about the 1969 Charles Manson murders.) I grew up in the suburbs of Denver and it was […]
You’ve read Nordic, dabbled with Tartan, but what about Sunburnt Noir? Recently, a few crime writers and readers on Twitter had a stab at coming up with a snappy identifier for Australian crime fiction. My contribution was Sunburnt, but other suggestions included Gum Leaf and Kangaroo, with the impressive-sounding Noir Australis suggested by a crime […]