Author Q&A: May McGoldrick

Posted on 02/20/2019 at 10:53 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Now this is news you’ll like to hear even more than we like sharing it: The secret to success, for the people behi...

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Author Q&A: Terry Ambrose

Posted on 02/13/2019 at 11:21 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Many kids dream big, imagining themselves flying to Mars, running the country, or striding down the red carpet at awards...

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Save the date for a new John le Carré novel

Posted on 12/10/2018 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Great news for espionage-novel fans: John le Carré has a new work coming out next fall. Le Carré’s p...

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Watch Ian Fleming interview Raymond Chandler

Posted on 11/05/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s a dark and dreary day in Des Moines, so it seemed fitting that we stumbled upon footage of Ian Fleming’...

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Write your scary story like someone's reading it out loud

Posted on 10/21/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Phil Athans believes that most people breathe along with their reading as if they’re speaking out loud. That tende...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Horror, Thriller, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Climb inside the head of crime novelist Tana French

Posted on 10/02/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

How does someone who enjoyed a warm-and-fuzzy childhood go on to write dark psychological thrillers? Bestselling crime n...

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You don't have to commit a crime to write authentic mysteries

Posted on 10/08/2018 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

“Write what you know” is all well and good if you’re not a law-abiding citizen who’s also a crim...

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Author Q&A: Thorne Moore

Posted on 08/21/2018 at 11:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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All Thorne Moore ever wanted to do was become a writer. She declared this aspiration to her friends, overcoming her (unf...

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Author Q&A: Brent Jones

Posted on 08/17/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Brent Jones won a national creative writing contest in Canada when he was just fourteen. And then he set fiction aside f...

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From the vault: Author Q&A with Seeley James

Posted on 07/21/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Perhaps one of the most unique back stories we’ve encountered among the authors we interview is that of Seeley Jam...

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