One of my excellent beta readers, not habitually a reader of mysteries, commented that U-town does seem to have a lot of murders and that she probably wouldn’t like to live there. A sensible thought (though there are other reasons … Continue reading
On one hand, obviously novels are different from video games, and movies are different from comic books, and so on. But, on the other hand, all of these are different ways of telling stories, and there are lessons you can … Continue reading
More of the story Stevie One is posted. The new part starts here. This is the conclusion of Part Two of the story. I was going to split this up, post some today and the rest later, but I decided … Continue reading
I emailed back and forth a few times with Laura Stanfill (when we were preparing for my guest post on her blog) and she mentioned that my writing in Stevie One is “clean and accurate.” My response in email was: … Continue reading
For me, the ultimate test of a magazine is that I often read articles about subjects that I’m not actually interested in, either because I learn things or just because they’re well written. I’ve talked before about how I always … Continue reading
When I was young, I was really into the mystery novels of Ellery Queen. There was one book in particular that always stuck in my mind. In it, a famous novelist was murdered, and the detectives discovered a locked room … Continue reading