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Safe Places: On Writing Books for Teens about Teen Issues
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I moved ten times before I turned seventeen. That number doesnโt count temporary moves while waiting for housing, like the time we lived in a hotel on Waikiki for…
From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two Acts
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Iโve always been a tremendous fan of thrillers, especially of the psychological variety. Whether on the page or on the screen, they rank amongst my favorite thing ever. (I…
Black Horror Fiction Has Always Been Here. Whatโs Changed Is The Attitudes of Gatekeepers.
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2023 has, so far, been a year full of innovative and mind-bending anthologies, andย Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horrorย is one of the best. With an incredible…
Jesse Q. Sutanto on Toxic Friendships, Shrinking Attention Spans, and Finding the Muse
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As one of the terminally online, I really enjoyed the recent โhow often men think about the Roman Empireโ discourse on Twitter. One response that went viral claimed that…
The Western Meets Weird Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion
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Once a narrowly defined genreโset in the American frontier of the 19th Centuryโthe definition of Western has expanded with contemporary takes from such authors as Cormac McCarthy, Ivy Pochoda,…
How a Trip to a Museum Turned into the Perfect Start to a Mystery
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School field trips. Exhibitions. Guided tours. It might be easy to dismiss museums as stuffy or even boring, but they are far from thatโespecially to an aspiring crime writer…
A Country Road, in the Dead of Night: On The Historical Hauntings of Irish Folklore
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First published in 1936, On Another Manโs Wound was written by Earnรกn ร Mรกille and recounts his time as a guerrilla fighter during the Irish War of Independence in…