by Isabella Maldonado How many of us have read great crime novels (or seen TV shows or movies) featuring the romantic exploits of law enforcement officers? Invariably gorgeous, they run from one passionate entanglement to another. I often chuckle when I see these depictions. As I discovered when I...
MARCH ROGUE ROUNDUP
Here’s what we Rogues talked about, researched, and revealed in March… First, Sherry Knowlton took us on a guest blog trip to Botswana. She discussed the process of researching her latest book, Dead on the Delta, which involved safaris, elephants, and lions — oh my! After a year of the pandemic,...
ALMA KATSU GOES ROGUE
Five of Alma Katsu’s novels combine history with horror or the supernatural, including THE HUNGER (international award winning, Stoker nominated, and one of the best horror novels of all time per NPR) and THE DEEP (Stoker nominated). But her latest book, RED WIDOW, is also her first spy novel,...
J.T. ELLISON GOES ROGUE
We are delighted to welcome New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 25 novels and the EMMY award winning co-host of the literary TV show, A Word on Words, J.T. Ellison. With millions of books in print, her novels have been published in 25 countries. Here J.T. tells us where...
FIVE KEYS TO SUCCESSFULLY RESEARCHING AN HISTORICAL NOVEL
The Memorial Wall in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley Virginia has 133 black stars carved into Vermont marble. Each star represents a fallen agency officer. Many are named, but a few are identified only by the date and place they died. My new novel, The Mercenary, is inspired by one...
NICK PETRIE GOES ROGUE
Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. His story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in The Seattle Review, a national literary journal. His...
DIANE CAPRI GOES ROGUE: The Queen’s Gambit & The Hunt for Jack Reacher
by Gayle Lynds: What a thrill to introduce Rogue friend Diane Capri, who shot onto the New York Times bestseller list with her exciting novels, including her innovative thrillers starring the immortal Jack Reacher of Lee Child fame. She’s written ten in her Reacher series! A snowbird and...
JAMES SWALLOW GOES ROGUE
James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for videogames, radio and television. His latest novel ROGUE is the sixth book in a series of...
WOLF BAHREN GOES ROGUE
The writer Kristi Bahrenburg Janzen uses the pen name Wolf Bahren when publishing fiction. Kristi has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia. She considers the lessons she learned from growing up in Poughkeepsie, NY, working odd jobs,...
4 WINNERS OF MAINE LIT AWARD GO ROGUE!
by Gayle Lynds This is criminally fun, and awesome…. Four of Maine’s finest suspense authors (each has won the state’s top prize for crime fiction) have new books out. Read all about them here, and check out their riveting mysteries!by Richard Cass Now that summer has passed us by and those...