Sandra Brown’s Ten Rules of Writing 1. Rewrite the first sentence of your book a thousand times if that’s what it takes to make it perfect. 2. Stop writing before the end of the scene; then you always have a place to start the next day. 3. If your characters need to move through time […]
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It’s no mystery why I write mysteries
It’s no mystery why I write mysteriesby Amy Gail Hansen “Why did you write a mystery?” People ask me this all the time, whether in casual conversation or more formally at one of my book signings for my debut mystery, The Butterfly Sister. And my answer traces back to the human condition. We are hardwired […]
The Return: A Confession
The Return: A Confession This started with a theft, not uncommon in this business, as there are only so many thriller plots. I was reading Carlos Fuentes’s wonderful The Old Gringo, and enjoying it so much that I decided to steal the plot. A New York book editor receives a deadly medical diagnosis and, instead […]