Seven Tips for Rediscovering Your Love of Reading by Lynn H. Blackburn While some writers have been writing stories since they could hold a pencil, that wasn’t my experience. I was a reader first. For thirty-five years I fell into books, crawled into stories, and lived there as often as possible. Then one day the […]
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Excerpt: The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton One sultry day in the summer of 185-, I arrived in Chicago, from a tour I had been making through the Southern States. I had attended to a portion of the accumulated business which I found awaiting me, when a gentleman entered the outer office and […]
Tips for Creating the Perfect Villain
How many times have you read a book where the villain reminds you of the old black-caped character twirling his handlebar mustache and laughing maniacally? Readers may have settled for that characterization a hundred years ago or even twenty-five years ago, but now they are looking for more complex characters and a more perfect villain. […]



