by Victoria Selman Like many crime fiction authors, I am fascinated by the criminal psyche. By what causes good people to do bad things. By what makes monsters. When my husband and I first started dating (what seems like a lifetime ago now!) he introduced me to a TV show that in many ways changed...
by Michelle Bennington Cozy mystery typically calls to mind bakeries, quirky characters, and the sweeter side of life paired with a mystery to solve; they rarely call to mind mental illness. But my book isn’t a typical cozy mystery. With a hoarder, human trafficking, and a possible ghost, Dumpster...
Win One of 25 Copies of The Long March Home! Enter for a chance to win one of 25 Copies of The Long March Home by bestselling authors Tosca Lee and Marcus Brotherton! This Giveaway is live until Oct. 09, 2023 for mailing addresses in the US and Canada. Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two...
The Art of Going DEEP: Part 1 By Chris Goff ThrillerFest 2017 when RED SKY launched Over the years, I’ve spoken at writer’s conferences ad nauseum about plotting the novel, researching the novel, creating characters, writing realistic dialogue and boots on the ground settings. All very important...
By Z.J. Czupor On Tour with Dead Writers is Z.J. Czupor's new installment on Rogue Women Writers. Guess the correct dead writer and be entered to win a free book. A Google Doodle was created specifically for this internationally acclaimed mystery author on April 23, 2015. The Doodle honors her...
by Tori Eldridge “You’re a ninja?” Nervous laughter. “Guess I better not piss you off!” This or something similar is one of the most common responses I get after disclosing my fifth-degree black belt rank in To-Shin Do ninja martial arts. It’s not what readers—or anyone—would expect from a lithe...
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in August… August began with both chaos and Karna Bodman's attempt to write amidst it. Born of her own brushes with natural disasters, Karna recommends four thriller novels inspired by real-life disasters. Next, we...
By Lisa Black Forensic genetic genealogy burst into the American lexicon in 2018 with the identification of the Golden State Killer, but the methodology had been around for decades. It was developed not to find the perverse and violent, but the loved. Around the turn of the millennium, companies...
By Tosca Lee Earlier today I peeked at a list of questions sent to me ahead of an upcoming interview. One of them was this: What got you into writing? I’ve shared the story of how my dad made a deal with me to write my first novel during a summer in college. But I’d already been writing (not...
By Jenny Milchman When Steven Spielberg’s film version of Peter Benchley’s blockbuster Jaws came out, it furthered the reach of the novel, spawned (ha, get it, a fish reference?) a whole school of (I can keep going) sometimes great, sometimes comical derivations that continue to this day (I’m...
