I friggin’ love a good twist in a story. Seriously. I’ll forgive a lot if an author can knock me over with a completely unexpected reveal that seems obvious in retrospect. And because it’s something I love reading, twists are a device I tend to use a lot in my own writing. Now, […]
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Literary Thrillers: An Oxymoron? by Bonnie Kistler
What’s in a name? Plenty, if we’re talking about the label assigned to a novel. It governs where the work is shelved in a bookstore or library or what algorithm an e-tailer uses to recommend it. It determines whether the novel’s readership is largely men or almost entirely women, or children or young adults or […]
The Research That Goes into an Historical Fiction Mystery Novel By Rick Bleiweiss
Do you know that ‘bobby’ is slang for a member of London’s police because Sir Robert Peel established the force (in 1829), or that in England any geographical area that has ‘shire’ in its name (think Devonshire) is similar to a county in America, or that you can say that you are chuffed if you […]