by Helen Currie Foster “Tell me a story,” begs the child. “Tell me a story about before you met me,” the lover entreats the loved one....

Mystery authors deal in death. They must get the details correct when writing about the untimely demise of a character. Because laws for...

by K.P. Gresham Writers (or at least me) despise (rightly so) the idea of formulaic writing. I am creative! I have my own ideas! Ain’t...

The basic steps to submitting fiction manuscripts to magazines, anthologies, and contests are as follows: STEP 1: Find calls for...

by K.P. Gresham It begins with the kidnapping of the Saudi Crown Prince’s daughter. Allon, head of Israeli intelligence, is directed by...

Written by Renee Kimball “From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive. It gets in your face....

By Helen Currie Foster Last week Big D hosted the Bouchercon book conference. Two sessions made me wonder why we’re drawn to particular...

No one else in my family writes novels. When I talk about plotting and pacing, my husband gives me the same blank stare that I give him...

No matter what they tell you, Texas isn’t all cowboys and cactus and bullets and brush. Texas Book Festival  opens on the grounds of the...

Lois Winston Award winning author, Lois Winston, has a new crafting mystery coming out for the holidays! She has kindly allowed me to...

by Renee Kimball There are gems of wisdom in Schneider’s book for writers and would-be-writers. Each page speaks in a kind of firm...

by Helen Currie Foster Even just thinking of certain smells can yank me straight back to childhood. Oil paint­­s? Mama working on her...

My books by Dorothy Sayers. Picture by N. M. Cedeño Academic mysteries are a timeless subgenre in crime fiction. Found on almost every...

[Notice: Typgress is not authorized to post content from this blog on its site.] When I began Elizabeth Buhmann’s BLUE LAKE, I was–I’m...

The master of suspense took a break from his usual mystery, crime, and thriller books to write Playing for Pizza; a football story...

by Helen Currie Foster Fred Vargas by Marcello Casal/ABr, licensed under CC BY-3.0 BR. Via Wikipedia Her sheer imagination, her complex...

Logo provided by Sisters in Crime- Heart of Texas Chapter At the June Sisters in Crime – Heart of Texas meeting, Detective Dave Fugitt...

By K.P. Gresham Sara Paretsky created quite a stir in the mystery writing community with her recent letter to the editor. (New York Times...

It happened again. An author killed off a character I love. I hate that. I hate the author. I continue to like the book, but the author I...

by Fran Paino The Battle of the Bulge, (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945), was the last significant German effort to split the allies...