By Lisa Black Truth is often stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction is truth—whether it means to be or not. Any cozy mystery worth its salt has a small town, a bickering couple, eccentric characters, and a great climate. A murder in 2013 checked all these boxes and more, but to the...
By Alex Kava In honor of National Dog Month, I want to share how one of my characters—a favorite of readers as well as my own—came to life. Grace is a scrappy, sixteen-pound Jack Russell terrier. In my Ryder Creed series, Creed is a former Marine K9 handler who now owns a training facility...
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in July… We started July off by getting cozy with a killer. Yep, you ready that right. Guest Author Nikki Knight introduced us to her cozy assassin character, Grace Adair—giving us some behind the scenes intel on...
By Wendy Whitman My obsession with murder and my experience working at Court TV and on the Nancy Grace show were the catalysts for my writing journey. My debut crime thriller Premonition was meant in large part to be a tribute to all the murder victims I covered during the course of my nearly...
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in June… We began the month with a Giveaway Announcement. Four lucky registrants of our May Rogue Reads won their own new escapist reads. Did you miss May's event? June's too!? Well, we missed you. Tune in again in...
An Interview with Coauthors Tosca Lee and Marcus Brotherton By Tosca Lee It's the question we get asked all the time: How Can Two Authors Write a Novel Together? My coauthor of The Long March Home, Marcus Brotherton, and I discuss. 🙂 Tosca: This is my second time co-authoring, and it’s very...
What we Rogues talked about, researched, and revealed in November… We began November with a rogue Rogue: Chris Goff. After seeing Antarctica in 2019, Chris and her husband scheduled two trips in the following years, one of which was to the Arctic. Each were postponed. After being pent up for two...
by Isabella Maldonado I write two crime fiction series, one with a homicide detective and the other featuring a federal agent. A major difference between the two is how the setting changes the feel of the story. Having your main character work in the same place grounds your story deeply in the...
by Tracy Clark I just gave my first author presentations on craft, one on writing settings and one on building book people (characters). I think I did okay. I hope I did. But I’m a writer, not Mr. Chips, so things might have been a little, you know, shaky. I put the presentation together (with...
Gayle Lynds: Barbara Ross’s novels always move me. They’re riveting! In her newest one, Muddled Through, modernization sends residents of a Maine resort into turmoil. Add valuable pottery, town meetings, and unfortunate death, and you have adventure, a retired National Geographic female...
