Many authors hate the question: where do your ideas come from? Why? Are they afraid if they tell you, you’ll steal them? Or by talking about it, the magic fountain will dry up? Maybe they steal them from others and live in shame. When Mary Chase was asked how she came up with her eight-foot […]
How Adopting a 3-yr-old at 19 Formed the Basis for a Thriller: Making It Real
Main characters have to feel real or you, the reader, will abandon them. I write thrillers and I’m forever striving to write that perfect visceral character. Hemingway’s advice: “From all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new […]
2012 Seeley James Awards
Suddenly, I had this crazy idea: everyone (including Lee Child) thinks my thriller reviews are fun so I should start giving out awards. And not just for the graft and bribes. You see, I like to think long-term: If I want to have a 20th Anniversary Awards Banquet in 2032, let’s say somewhere in the […]
Tragedy & Thrillers – Why You Seek Solace in Violent Fiction
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 […]
3 Lessons Learned: Writing a Thriller Heroine
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 […]
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