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

Author Erin Bledsoe shares her top five steps to writing historical crime fiction that will keep readers hooked.

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

Writing Techniques Writing What I Know (and Feel)Elise Hart Kipness

Write Better Fiction Tess Amy: Be Relentlessly, Illogically Positive Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction Frontlist/Backlist: On Friendship Amy Jones

Write Better Fiction Literary Fiction or Genre Fiction: A Case for Both Tim Maleeny

Write Better Fiction Matthew Blake: On Real-Life Mysteries Inspiring Fictional Mysteries Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Fiction One Piece of Advice From 50 Mystery and Thriller Authors in 2023 Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Fiction Charlotte Vassell: Read Widely and Critically Robert Lee Brewer

Young Adult True Crime as Inspiration for Fiction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Margot Harrison

Interviews A Conversation With Bruce Robert Coffin on Never Letting the Dream Die (Killer Writers)Clay Stafford

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