Top Ten Books About Actors By: Elly Griffiths What would you be if you weren’t a writer? I’m often asked this question and I always reply, rather smugly, that I’ve always wanted to write and completed my first book (still sadly unpublished) when I was eleven. But the truth is that I did have another […]

Poe’s Horror Trumps His Mystery By Jeffrey B. Burton I ordered a collection of horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe through Scholastic Books in fifth grade. Scholastic promised the tales of terror would scare the bejesus out of me. Unfortunately, I was too young for Poe at the time; however, later in junior high, I […]

On Friendship as a Source of Intrigue in Fiction By: Alanna Schubach One of the more intriguing aspects of making a new friend, as a child, was going to their house for the first time. I remember it as a revelatory experience: finally I would see what had been hidden during our interactions in the […]

When Inspiration Strikes by Richard O’Rawe, author of Goering’s Gold: A Ructions O’Hare Novel I have a heart condition. So when my doctor advised me to go to the hospital to check out chest and stomach pains, I listened. My wife and I arrived at the triage centre of the local Accident and Emergency department […]

The Anatomy of a Thriller By Daco S. Auffenorde   Imagine waking up chained to a bed. A weight bears down on your body. Your brain’s interior crackles. Harsh, white lights blind you. A nightmare? No. You’re in a hospital. You’ve suffered a tremendous fall, a doctor says. It’s a miracle you’re not dead. “What’s […]

A Life in Libraries by Glenn Cooper Anyone who knows me well, knows that libraries are important in my life. My first exposure occurred when I was very young and my mother dragged me to a library where she was doing her dissertation work. I was given a book to occupy myself at a long […]