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Crime fiction

The Immigrant Backstory of Writing My Novel

Author Yiming Ma shares how his immigrant experience has influenced his views on life as well as his novel writing.

Yiming Ma
From Fact to Fiction: Making the Leap From Crime Reporter to Crime NovelistWalter B. Levis
The Intrigue of Family Curses: How Supernatural Elements Elevate Crime FictionDaco S. Auffenorde
Antony Johnston: Solving This Crime Is No CakewalkRobert Lee Brewer
Digging Up the Dead: 5 Steps to Writing Historical Crime FictionErin Bledsoe
E.C. Nevin: ‘Done’ Is Better than ‘Perfect’Robert Lee Brewer
Jeffrey Konvitz: Believe in Your CreativityRobert Lee Brewer
How Criminal Sketch Artistry Works (FightWrite™)Carla Hoch
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar (and Vice Versa) in Crime FictionMailan Doquang
9 Clues for Killing It in Crime FictionPamela Fagan Hutchins
Laurie L. Dove: I Have Carried Parts of This Story My Entire LifeRobert Lee Brewer
Writing What I Know (and Feel)Elise Hart Kipness
Tess Amy: Be Relentlessly, Illogically PositiveRobert Lee Brewer
Frontlist/Backlist: On FriendshipAmy Jones
Literary Fiction or Genre Fiction: A Case for BothTim Maleeny
Matthew Blake: On Real-Life Mysteries Inspiring Fictional MysteriesRobert Lee Brewer

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