By Andrew E. Kaufman I’ve been spending about 98% of my time going crazy lately. No, really, I have. If you don’t believe it, ask those wh...

by Tom Adair My wife used to think I was paranoid. When your day job is all about murder, rape, and theft you tend to look at the world a l...

by Jodie Renner, editor & author  Techniques for Building Suspense As I mentioned in Part I of this article, all genres of fictio...

By L.J. Sellers, author of the bestselling Detective Jackson mysteries. This essay was originally posted at Alex J. Cavanaugh's blog , b...

By CJ West, thriller author First, I want to thank the members of the collective for asking me to visit every other Thursday. I hope we’ll ...

By Judith Yates Borger, who's offering free ebook to any book club that sets up a Skype or FaceTime visit. A writer friend refuses to...

By Kimberly Hitchens (Hitch), founder of Booknook.biz For those of you who've missed the latest, Amazon initially yanked and wire...

Pirate King by Laurie R. King.*   Those who believe that a series gets weaker the longer it goes on have not read Laurie King's Mary R...