2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (795+ words) Below are eight of my favorite tales of otherworldly houses that helped inspire my debut Wildwood. Riley Sager, The Only One Left Set in a crumbling estate about to topple into the Atlantic on the coast of Maine, this tale…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (603+ words) Everyone in this book is hiding something. Now, J.T. Ellison gets candid about the people and prevarications that populate her crime fiction … John B. Valeri: The book is set against the backdrop of the holidays, with an opening scene in which…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (703+ words) When I say “Monaco woman,” what image comes to mind? Perhaps it’s a model stretched out on the deck of a yacht, champagne (or green detox juice) in hand. Perhaps it’s a sunglasses clad woman carrying a Birkin bag worth…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1570+ words) The second book is set two years after the first and involves Bishop Ra and his church that has arrived in town. After being shot at in a parade, one of the church’s most prominent white members is killed, before…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (355+ words) Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Henry Wise, Promised Land (Atlantic Crime) “Few novels have reflected their setting as powerfully as this one, with its ever denser, ever darker narrative and its evocative…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (964+ words) You could say Anthony Franze had a successful case of double vision. His first vision didn’t turn out so well. His second made him a bestselling crime fiction author. His original vision for becoming an author—if you could call…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (706+ words) When I’m writing, I do sometimes hear voices in my head: I imagine what characters would sound like delivering different lines of dialogue, and I “listen” to my prose to make sure it’s working properly. I have a lot of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (293+ words) MO: What’s one essential lesson for editors to know before putting together an anthology? TVA: Have a vision but be prepared to change it. The stories, like stories we write, sometimes change the ending on their own. MO: What is…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) I think this is a key attribute of our cultural fascination with the headless woman. She’s everywoman and no woman at once. She invokes terror, or she’s invisible. When I was eight or nine at a sleepover at my friends…...