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Crime fiction

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

In this interview, author Elizabeth Arnott discusses empowering forgotten victims of violent men in her new crime novel, The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives.

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

Mystery/Thriller 9 Clues for Killing It in Crime Fiction Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Write Better Fiction Laurie L. Dove: I Have Carried Parts of This Story My Entire Life Robert Lee Brewer

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