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Crime fiction

Mystery/Thriller From Poetry to Murder: How a Poet Writes Crime

Poet and author Erica Wright shares the common threads of poetry and crime fiction while also explaining how a poet writes crime.

Mystery/Thriller 7 Tips for Writing Environmental Crime Fiction Alice Henderson

Mystery/Thriller Elizabeth Arnott: You Just Need the Right Idea, Passion, and Tenacity Robert Lee Brewer

Mystery/Thriller It’s a Bad Romance: How I Got Romance Wrong in My Crime Novel (And How I Fixed It)Cate Quinn

Mystery/Thriller A Conversation With Otto Penzler on What Writers Overlook When Crafting Crime Fiction (Killer Writers)Clay Stafford

Write My Query Successful Queries: Dara Hyde and “Vicious Cycle,” by Jaime Parker Stickle Guest Column

Character Mirror, Mirror: Women Protagonists in Crime Fiction Victoria Dowd

Writing Habits and Practices The Immigrant Backstory of Writing My Novel Yiming Ma

Mystery/Thriller From Fact to Fiction: Making the Leap From Crime Reporter to Crime Novelist Walter B. Levis

Mystery/Thriller The Intrigue of Family Curses: How Supernatural Elements Elevate Crime Fiction Daco S. Auffenorde

Mystery/Thriller Antony Johnston: Solving This Crime Is No Cakewalk Robert Lee Brewer

Mystery/Thriller Digging Up the Dead: 5 Steps to Writing Historical Crime Fiction Erin Bledsoe

Mystery/Thriller E.C. Nevin: ‘Done’ Is Better than ‘Perfect’Robert Lee Brewer

Historical Jeffrey Konvitz: Believe in Your Creativity Robert Lee Brewer

Resources How Criminal Sketch Artistry Works (FightWrite™)Carla Hoch

Mystery/Thriller Making the Familiar Unfamiliar (and Vice Versa) in Crime Fiction Mailan Doquang

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