Junior Crime Scene Sleuths Can you imagine being a seventeen-year-old who casually mentions the time she almost stepped on a scapula bone walking through the forest, or a sixteen-year-old who spots the bullet that went through a victim and ended up buried in the dirt of a park?I now know teens like this. I’ve written […]
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Interview with Chelsea Cain
Interview with Chelsea Cain TSM: Tell us about One Kick.CC: One Kick is the first book in my new Kick Lannigan thriller series. Kick was abducted when she was six and rescued five years later. Now she is twenty-one, infamous because of the case and in possession of a unique skill set. Her abductor taught […]
Story Trumps Structure
Story Trumps Structure Twelve years ago, I had an idea for a series of mysteries featuring a one-armed detective. At that time, I attended a seminar by a well-known novelist who taught us to outline our fiction carefully and meticulously and then stick to the outline as we crafted our stories. In some cases, he […]