Sarah Pinborough on Fear When I first started writing The Whisper Man, all I really knew was that it would be about fathers and sons and that I wanted it to be scary. The story emerged gradually as I wrote. I found myself in a similar situation when asked to guest edit Strand’s blog. […]
SCRATCHING THE TENSION-JUNKIE ITCH: GIVING THE READER A REASON TO TURN PAGES Why do people read? What makes someone stay up late, turning pages? The easy answer is curiosity. But all writers wrestle with how to create it. All writers toil to make it look effortless. Humans are tension junkies. We’ve survived through the […]
(2016 has been a banner for the Strand’s blog, our blog has been a hit with readers all around the world with over 100,000 hits per month. Here’s a sampling of our ten most popular blog posts from Rennie Airth to Tess Gerritsen our articles have never explored the same issue twice, but have always […]