Writing Outside the Box Chris Goff: I first met Lee Goldberg at a Bouchercon some 20 years ago, and what sticks with me is his sense of humor and bigger-than-life personality. The man was holding court in the hotel foyer, recounting a conversation he’d had with his beautiful wife, Valerie (who is...
DUN, DUN, DUN, DUN…DEADLINE!
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...
RICHARD CASS GOES ROGUE
What’s New and Hot in Publishing? Gayle Lynds: In one word: Substack! Welcome to the lively, ever-changing world of best-selling, award-winning author Richard Cass. Known for his lyrical style, his mysteries and suspense novels are riveting. He’s also an experimenter, and today he’s going to...
WHEN FICTION CROSSES THE LINE
by Chris Goff Recently I read a Soapbox article in Publisher’s Weekly that gave me pause. Entitled Let Fiction Be Fiction, in it the author tackles the question of who gets to tell which stories. The author’s debut novel, Other People’s Children, tells the story of a couple who, after...
THE CARE & KEEPING OF YOUR WRITER
Writing is a perilous business. At its best, the writer journeys through a portal deep into a fictional realm, and lives a multi-verse away from their nearest and dearest, causing all sorts of glitches like burnt dinners, or no dinners at all. At its worst, said fictional world does not appear on the page, causing said writer to turn into a roaring, demonic creature seldom seen outside of a William Peter Blatty novel.
ALMA KATSU GOES ROGUE
RED WIDOW author, Alma Katsu, goes rogue! Katsu shares with the Rogue Women Writers what it’s been like to write a spy novel after a 30 year career in intelligence!