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Meet ‘Big Mo’ Dolan by Nick Rippington
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
INTERVIEW WITH MAURICE ‘BIG MO’ DOLAN: PROTAGONIST OF NICK RIPPINGTON’S NEW NOVEL – WORKING TITLE: HEADERS Hi. I’m Paul Melluish, crime writer with London’s Evening Guardian. Currently I’m putting a book together about the most dangerous criminals of the 70s and 80s and was granted exclusive access to…
Writing Week in Review: 12/31-1/6
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Last week I mentioned that I had unexpectedly found myself with two partial works in progress to start off 2017. This left me with a bit of a conundrum: should I keep both as active drafts or set one aside until the other is finished? Though I am not a…
Guest Post: Writing a Mystery/Thriller by Ann W. J. White, M.Ed.
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
Mystery literature is undergoing a resurgence with the American public. We find ourselves in need of a good story where the protagonist undergoes a journey, perhaps of faith, family, or reaction to something that cuts us to the quick. We select settings that we are comfortable with, things that…
When a Writer Doesn’t Publish: ‘The Mountains of Parnassus’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
? Sometimes authors, even the most lauded of them, do not publish the books that they write. That doesn’t always mean that their words remain lost forever. Though Czesław Miłosz has been dead for over a decade now, Yale University Press has resurrected one of his long buried manuscripts. Czesław Miłosz…
The Desperation of a Public Library
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
These days public libraries operate on desperation as often as they run on anything else. This recently drove several library staff to do something a little reckless. Culling library collections often relies on numbers. If a patron checks out a book, that book is safe in the system. If a…
The Best Debut Novels of 2016
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
I have a warm place in my heart for newly published writers – there is something special about fresh blood – so I want to highlight some of the most exciting debut novels of 2016. As with most of my lists, these novels are in no particular order and are…
The Mystery of Mysteries by Christina Hoag
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
Amateur sleuths, hardboiled cops, private eyes, spooks and spies. We love them all. Mysteries and thrillers make up the second most popular genre of books after romance. Why are we as readers so drawn to these stories that plumb the dark recesses of human nature? I’ve often pondered that…
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