By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the second in my cozy mystery writing series. Last week I focused on writing better sleuths. Today, I thought I’d take a look at another vital [...]
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By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve had a few people emailing me asking questions about starting a cozy mystery (or, really, any type of mystery involving an amateur sleuth). I promised to write [...]
by Carolyn Haines, @DeltaGalCarolyn In real estate, the old saw is that location is everything. For me, the same is almost always true in fiction. My reading and writing preference is that the [...]
by Harrison Demchick, @HDemchick Have you ever read a mystery where the culprit’s motivations made no sense at all? Or how about one where the culprit is caught because he did something he would [...]
Thanks for French writer Frédérique Molay for guest posting today. A quick note that I’m posting on the Writers on the Storm blog today on Making Our Content Work Harder for Us. Thanks! by Frédérique [...]
by Kathryn Jones, @Kakido The Secret of the Old Clock…The Bungalow Mystery…The Mystery of Lilac Inn… I was twelve-years-old when I began reading Nancy Drew mysteries by Carolyn Keene. Nancy not only drew me [...]
by Dori Butler, @Dorihbutler I write mysteries for kids. I don’t write for this audience because it’s easier than writing for adults. (It’s NOT easier!) I write for this audience because I like [...]
by D.J. Swykert, @djswykert The Death of Anyone (Melange Books; February 2013 trade paperback and ebook formats) is a fictional story in which a Familial DNA search is a key investigative component. This is [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One thing that I love about writing mysteries is that they’re so much fun to write. In my guest post today for Mason Canyon at the Thoughts [...]
By Dan Morse, @morsedan, author of The Yoga Store Murder In 2011, as a reporter for The Washington Post, I covered the most violent of murders in the least likely of places. Someone had slashed, [...]
by J.J. Hensley, @JJHensleyauthor As most of you, I’ve read hundreds of mysteries and thrillers. And as most of you, I’ve recognized that many of them can be formulaic and use characters that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I recently read an interesting novel—I won’t say which one, since I’d be spoiling the ending. The most important character in the book was killed in an ending [...]
by Joe Benevento Anyone familiar with mystery knows the “femme fatale,” a character who can prove literally lethal to the man she seduces away from clear thinking. Bridget O’Shaughnessy in Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon [...]
by Barry Knister, @barryknister When I first decided to write a mystery series, the initial problem I faced didn’t have to do with writing. It had to do with the crime business. I’m [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Mystery writers that I’ve met tend to fall into a couple of different groups—writers who have picked their killer before they start writing their story (or early in [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s an interesting phenomenon when you comb through your RSS reader—even if you have a large number of blogs that you’re following. Sometimes it’s as if everyone got [...]
by Joe Benevento In Edgar Allan Poe’s third and final story featuring C. Auguste Dupin, “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin explains to the narrator why the police were unable to find the letter in [...]
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