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Tragedy & Thrillers – Why You Seek Solace in Violent Fiction

December 20, 2012 By Seeley James

I am a thriller writer and reader. I also write reviews that appear on various sites around cyberspace. In the last week, I’ve had several requests from non-thriller readers asking me to recommend something for them. I did a quick check of some reader forums and found similar requests: non-thriller readers looking for thrillers. What […]

Filed Under: Great Writers On Writing, Reviews

Review: Hard Knocks

December 19, 2012 By Seeley James

Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp – $3.99 E The phrase “cozy mystery” brings the image of my Aunt Mabel sipping tea by the fire on a rainy day while reading a mystery featuring a heroine of her age and gentleness. As you might have already guessed—I’ve never read a cozy mystery.* Zoë Sharp provides something […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Charlie Fox, ebooks, fiction, heroine, Zoe Sharp

3 Lessons Learned: Writing a Thriller Heroine

December 17, 2012 By Seeley James

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Can a Man Write a Female Leads? Why not? Ms. Rowling wrote a boy’s story. The Wall Street Journal ran an article just last week about women writing under male pseudonyms when writing male characters. Why couldn’t I write a female protagonist in a thriller? I love female leads in thrillers. I’d been working on […]

Filed Under: Great Writers On Writing, Reviews Tagged With: ebooks, heroine, hunger games, thriller

5 Things I Tried to Accomplish

December 11, 2012 By Seeley James

Along with thousands of other people in the last thirty days, I’ve released a thriller. It’s fun, exciting, and unputdownable or your money back*. But with all those competitors out there, the question I asked was, how do I make mine stand out? What niche is out there that would make mine unique? I hope […]

Filed Under: Pia Sabel Thrillers, Reviews Tagged With: debut writer, ebooks, hunger games, katniss, Katniss Everdeen, new releases, pia sabel

Review: The Girl Who Would Be King

November 27, 2012 By Seeley James

The Girl Who Would Be King — by Kelly Thompson $4.99 E This book is better than Hunger Games. A hell of a lot better. More exciting, more innovative, more fascinating. And yet Traditional Publishers won’t touch it. Why? Because it doesn’t fit their formula. It has no genre, no shelf at B&N, no section […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: authors, big 6, debut writer, great writing, heroine, katniss, Katniss Everdeen, new releases

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