When a wrong turn is a right turn, and an excerpt from Ginger Bolton's BOSTON SCREAM MURDER.
Kathleen Marple Kalb chats about her swashbuckling opera singer sleuth, plotting, and advice for aspiring writers.
Phillip Margolin's challenge was figuring out how you could kill someone who is on stage in front of 3000 people and disguise the identity of the killer.
The characters came to Alma Katsu immediately, fully formed, like she'd known them all her life. Like they were old friends.
In Julie Howard's SEA SALT LAVENDER FOR APHRODITE, Rosella is loving her new ice cream truck business, until she finds a corpse...
Owen Laukkanen has always felt drawn to the ocean, and the mountains and the kind of chilly moodiness of the rainforest, and he's tried to evoke that more and more in his writing...
Like the heroine of The Turkish Affair, Jill Culiner once worked in backwoods Turkey, translating. The landscape was beautiful but bleak; the winters were Siberian, the summers, hot and heavy.
Goal, Motivation and Conflict by Debra Dixon and The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler. Those books helped me learn to plot my stories.
