By Gayle Lynds It’s October, and a chill is in the air. Chipmunks and bears are going to ground, and pumpkins, ghosts, and goblins are showing up on porches and in windows. Ohhh, good! Halloween will soon be here! But as you and I are smiling about the fun of the holiday, there’s another...
By Gayle Lynds I love to talk shop. But then, every writer I know does. We can spend hours over a glass of wine (or three) discussing how to describe a pair of shoes, or smoke, or blood. Or in a really juicy conversation, we can get excited about the advantages of first-person versus third-person...
Noted best-sellers Lee Child and Laurie R. King invite 70 top authors to contribute essays and tips on the art and craft of writing and publishing.
Here’s Gayle Lynds’s writer’s tale, but it ends well (really!). Do you have 4:00 a.m. insomnia? It started for Gayle a “gazillion” years ago before her writing career took off.
Well, not entirely kidding. There were (surprisingly) some really good things. This month marks a full year of quarantining for many of us who didn’t have to leave home to work. We are grateful, John and I, to have been able to stay here. Remember last March as the pandemic was...
Sherry Knowlton has an adventure with each of her award-winning books, and the location of her new one, Dead on the Delta is a real humdinger – Botswana, Africa. Why there? Because her heroine, lawyer Alexa Williams, decides to hie herself off to spend four months researching lions, looking...
by Gayle LyndsI’m thrilled to let you know a first-time event for me – a big eBook sale for my international spy thriller The Assassins. Just $1.99, but it lasts only a few days. “Rich settings, beautifully crafted characters, and a compulsively readable storyline.... Outstanding.”...
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...
She was told nobody wanted to read spy novels by women. She proved them wrong in a big way. When you talk about barriers to entry, Gayle Lynds could write a book.Well, she did. Several in fact.The New York Times bestselling author remembers her struggles to get her first thriller manuscript...
by Gayle LyndsEver wonder why so many suspense novels and thrillers top the best-seller lists and have millions of readers? When I first started writing, I thought about that a lot. I knew I personally loved characters with whom I wanted to spend a lot of time, and stories that kept getting...
