What Kind of Job is Writing Mystery Novels, Anyway?
To those curious, but who’ve yet to write mystery novels for a living, it can seem intriguing, mysterious—a strange confluence of alchemy, pot-boiling and cryptic conjuring. [...]
To those curious, but who’ve yet to write mystery novels for a living, it can seem intriguing, mysterious—a strange confluence of alchemy, pot-boiling and cryptic conjuring. [...]
Mystery and suspense, like any other commercially published genre, has an obligation to engage its readers. Writers on whole are a lazy bunch (and I should [...]
Popular opinion (subject to the propaganda of vested interests) would have you believe that anything having to do with the paranormal, ESP, psychic phenomena and the [...]
Here it is, nearly the middle of August (damn near my birthday) and I haven’t posted a blog since the end of July. What with all [...]
For that matter, he’s no Harry Bosch or Dave Robicheaux either. Solving murders is about the only thing they all have in common. And in that [...]
You think you have problems . . . This guy is a mess! Broke, old and sick—lost his wife in an accident with a cement truck [...]
Probably the coolest thing about writing fiction is you get to make shit up. And when it comes to full length mystery novels, there’s a whole [...]
The art of writing—really? Hmm, yes and no. There is the artistic side, the impulse to create an aesthetic work that is satisfying to one’s self [...]
Having my first mystery novel under my belt, I was confident that all I had to do was get the manuscript in front of competent literary [...]
Nearly a year in the writing and the manuscript was finally finished. It was official, I was a mystery writer and I felt good about it. [...]