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Psychology Is Important For Motivation, But Your Characters Need More Than Diagnoses
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I teach creative writing at a public arts high school in Chicago. If youโre picturing Fame, with students breaking into song and dance in the hallways, youโre not far…
On Horror and Humanityโs Enduring Love Affair with Fear
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Hold, friend. I only have fifteen hundred words to save your life. You and I are bound in a bargain spanning hundreds of years, across dozens of types of…
Fighting Toxic Masculinity Through Young Adult Fiction
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When I was dreaming up the plot of my latest young adult thriller, The Revenge Game, I posed the following research question to my social media followers: โItโs hard…
How to Edit a Series of Crime Novellas with 30 Different Authors and Come Out the Other Side Feeling Grateful
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Talk to anyone who has edited an anthology, planned a Noir at the Bar, or even just tried to figure out where to go for dinner, and youโll get…
Wilderness Thrillers Featuring Fearless Women
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Iโm what you might call a mini-adventurer. Iโve climbed rockfaces, rafted rivers, backpacked into the wilderness and once slithered through a cave tunnel so tight that the only way…
Lee Goldberg on Westerns, Crime Novels, and Writing A Genre Mash-Up
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Iโve always loved crime novels and westerns. Iโve written dozens of crime novels, but not any westerns.ย Or so I thought.ย A few years ago, at a book signing…
How a German Spy Chief Built a Smuggling Network out of a Mission to Install a Nazi King in Britain
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Walter Schellenberg had few redeeming personal attributes and could easily be characterized as just another career Nazi. He owed his lofty position as head of German intelligence to the…
From Sports Reporter to Crime Writer
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Ask me why I created a female sports reporter protagonist and the answer is easy. Thatโs my background. I intimately know the characterโs experiencesโthe smell of the locker rooms,…