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My First Thriller: Jeneva Rose Is in Her Own World
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Jeneva Rose is a whirlwind. When the publishing world didn’t work for her, she created her own. Like most aspiring authors, she first took the conventional route to hoped-for…
Some Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Royal House of Windsor
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One of the joys of writing historical fiction as opposed to non-fiction is that the author can take a well-reasoned conspiracy theory and run with it, imagining how such…
The Girl and the Faun: Eden Phillpotts, His Crime Fiction and His Strange Relationship with His Daughter Adelaide
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“No biography or autobiography is true, because no one in his senses tells the truth about himself….Whoever wants to know me can find me in my work.” –Eden Phillpotts…
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
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Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Tod Goldberg, Gangsters Dont Die (Counterpoint) “As ever, Goldberg is adept at writing about mob…
Yasmin Angoe on Morally Gray Action Thrillers and the Heroes Nena Knight Can Spar
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I’ve thought long and hard about this particular topic—characters, or heroes that Nena Knight, elite Ghanaian assassin from my Nena Knight trilogy, could spar with. As I worked on…
The Gilded Age: On Invention and Excess
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“We don’t have a choice in the matter, Mr. McAllistar, we must go where history takes us.” In the HBO Gilded Age series, these were Bertha Russell’s brave words…
James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes
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“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all, and will not last.” Frank O’Connor laid it out. He wrote the words at the cusp of the…
The Cowboy Detective, Undercover and in Danger Among the Texas Desperados
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The following is an excerpt from Nathan Ward’s new book about Charlie Siringo: Son of the Old West, now available from Atlantic Monthly Press. ___________________________________ Along the snowy road…
Island Vacations Can Be Murder
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Sure, island vacations can be fun, relaxing, and restorative. But that’s if you’re reading a book in a different genre. In the world of crime, island vacations can be…