ROGUE FLASH: Tracy Clark Wins A Lefty
Rogue Tracy Clark has been awarded the Lefty for Best Mystery Novel for her 2023 release Hide! The 2024 Lefty Awards were presented at Left Coast Crime, Seattle Shakedown writer's conference. For a complete list of nominees and winners, please click here. Lefty Award Winners Best Mystery Novel...
HOW TO MAKE A HUGE DECISION
By Jenny Milchman For those of us who are parents of a certain age and stage, it’s college decision season. The months—years—maybe as much as a decade plus of hard academic work that our kids (and we!) have put in is coming to fruition. By this point in the spring, acceptances, spots on waitlists,...
FIVE LESSONS LEARNED FROM RUNNING THE FBI OBSTACLE COURSE AT QUANTICO
By Isabella Maldonado The FBI National Academy is an advanced course for law enforcement executives from around the world. For approximately three months, over 200 men and women move into college-style dorms at the FBI training campus at Quantico. The academic portion of the program is...
ON TOUR WITH DEAD WRITERS: Whodunit?
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 to be entered to win a free book. This oak chair was designed in the early 1900s by the husband of this famous author of mysteries. In fact, according to a book about the...
HOW PATIENCE PAYS OFF
By Karna Small Bodman Our Naples Public Library hosts four best-selling fiction authors a year at luncheons that draw some 600 readers and are major fund-raisers for the library. At one, the speaker was Pam Jenoff. Her latest book is Code Name Sapphire: A World War 2 Novel. Inspired by a true...
WRANGLER OR TOSSER?
Dispatches from the Desk By Tracy Clark I’ve heard stories of writers stopping two-thirds into a novel and shredding the whole thing because they weren’t happy with what they’d written. I’ve heard stories of writers who have finished an entire book, submitted it, and then asking their editor to...
RITES OF PASSAGE
By Chris Goff Officially, Spring began on March 19th and, if I'm being honest, it's beautiful in Western Michigan. We moved here a year ago and I'm still acclimating. The transition from Coloradan to Michigander has been more difficult than I ever imagined. I am a mountain girl at heart. I grew up...
KIRA PEIKOFF GOES ROGUE: Bioethics and Thriller Writing
Kimberley Howe: Delve into Kira Peikoff's world of bioethics, where the thrills will leave you with with serious chills. A Q&A with Baby X: A Thriller Author Kira Peikoff What led you to study bioethics at Columbia University? I had never actually heard of bioethics as a field...
