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.
Daryl Wood Gerber's goal is to create a well-crafted puzzle for the reader, so that they will derive the same pleasure that she experiences when she reads a good mystery.
Find out how Nate Hendley creates suspense in his books, the most surprising thing he discovered while researching, and his tips for aspiring true-crime writers.
Lynn Cahoon has a mystery file with news emails about local murders kept inside.
If you aspire to write, go where the writers are... Elizabeth J. Duncan guarantees you will come away having learned at least one thing.
Find out more about Carolyn Huizinga Mills' writing process and her fierce refusal to give up on the story that took up permanent residence in her brain and heart.
My one piece of advice to all writers is to write. Write anything and everything, write wherever you are, however you can and write what excites you.
'Butt in chair.' In other words, show up to write and treat it like a real job, not just a hobby. My mother used to repeat that quote that 90% of success is just showing up, and that’s very true when it comes to writing.
For mysteries, however, it crucial to plan out the crime and the clues. I figure out who gets murdered then develop a roster of suspects and motives.
