Having a Passion By Adam Mitzner “What do you want out of your writing career?” These were among the first words my agent asked me. Naturally, I told him that I wanted to be rich and famous, a perennial best-seller, my books translated into as many languages as are spoken, with A-list movie stars fighting […]

Haunted Houses and How They Inspire a Novel Sarah Strohmeyer   Several years ago, kind of by accident, my husband ended up purchasing at tax sale a 3,200-square-foot log cabin on eleven secluded, wooded acres in Vermont for a mere $13,673.67. It’s currently worth, very conservatively, $400,000. You’d love it. Everyone does. Now that we’ve […]

Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? By David Handler Whenever I speak about my Stewart Hoag series to library groups, mystery convention attendees, and other gatherings of avid readers, they tend to stare at me in wide-eyed amazement because they find Hoagy’s history so bizarre. My entire career has been bizarre. I’ve written thirty crime novels […]