How to Write a Mystery, Writing Thrillers

Exclusive interview with four-time Edgar Award nominee, Jeffery Deaver. Read more

“In large measure, you do this work because you need to do it … you’re inventing material that makes your experience somehow both accessible to you and reasonable to you so that you understand where you have been in your life.” Read more

Author of The Writer”s Guide to Character TraitsProfessional psychologist and author, Dr. Linda Edelstein, speaks about the uses of psychology in current fiction and how writers build the characters we read– From criminals to cult members and everyone else in between. Read more

“I really feel that the only way you can sell something is to keep it out there. Every time I sent something out, when it came back rejected, I’d immediately send it again. I think of it like I do war ships—if you keep a war ship in port, you’re not improving it. It needs to be out at sea doing its mission. It’s the same with a good manuscript.” Read more

“I wish I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product.” Read more

In this exclusive interview, Ridley Pearson, The New York Times best-selling author of 13 novels explains that well-conducted research into the kinds of characters you are writing is essential for writers. Read more

Do as the Greeks did: Use this time-honored method to give form to your fiction. Read more