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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Strand Critics Awards 2015
The Strand Magazine Critics Awards presentation took place on July 9. On Wednesday, July 8, at an invitation-only cocktail party in Manhattan, Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman shared the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for The Fever (Little, Brown and Company) and After I’m Gone (William Morrow), respectively. Elizabeth Little won the prize for […]
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 […]