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November 21, 2023 at 9:30 AM
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“Red Herrings, Foreshadows and Creating a Mystery” via KillZoneBlog #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime killzoneblog.com/2023/08/red-...
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May 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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“The Shadow Knows” by James Scott Bell via KillZoneBlog #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime killzoneblog.com/2025/03/the-...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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"The Many Poisons of Crime Fiction" by Valona Jones via CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime crimereads.com/poisons-crim...
The Many Poisons of Crime Fiction
For all of recorded history, poisons have been a means of death, both deliberate and accidental. Greek philosophers, kings, emperors, actresses, scientists, mathematicians, and more were felled by …
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June 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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"The Profoundly Unsettling World of Agatha Christie" by Lucy Foley via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice # writingtips #writingcrime
The Profoundly Unsettling World of Agatha Christie
As a longtime fan of Agatha Christie’s novels, I think we do their writer something of a disservice when we call them “cozy crime.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard them spo…
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April 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"Why Romance and Horror Make a Happily Ever After" by Trilina Pucci via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
Why Romance and Horror Make a Happily Ever After
When most readers think of a happily ever after they envision grandiose declarations of love paired with looks of longing between two characters. And when they think horror it’s all heart pounding,…
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July 10, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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“Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres” by Ande Pliego via CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime crimereads.com/laughing-at-...
Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres
In recent years, the art of genre-blending has seeped steadily into the mainstream, and I for one am waving a welcome banner for its arrival. As a reader first, I crave a book that will give me the…
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June 30, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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May 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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"Abandoned Estates, Empty Hotels, and Isolated Schools" by @ellygriffiths via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
Abandoned Estates, Empty Hotels, and Isolated Schools
Think of Gothic and what comes to mind? Ruined towers, brooding castles, women in crinolines fleeing from an unknown horror? The title quotation comes from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein which, for ma…
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February 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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June 13, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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“A Love Letter to the Fictional Thief” by Allison Epstein via CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime crimereads.com/allison-epst...
Allison Epstein: A Love Letter to the Fictional Thief
As a historical crime writer, there’s one trope I love more than almost anything, and that’s an old-timey thief with an elaborate scheme. If we had all day, I’d take you on a tour of all my favorit…
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July 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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“Cozy Mysteries Represent the Way Life Should Be” by Elizabeth Penney @liz2penney via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
Cozy Mysteries Represent the Way Life Should Be
My new mystery series features the proprietor of an apron shop located on the Maine coast, a setting rich in cultural associations. Lobster. Lighthouses. Quaint villages and rocky cliffs crowned wi…
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January 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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“Should You Write a Series or Stand Alones?” by James Scott Bell via KillZoneBlog #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime killzoneblog.com/2025/02/shou...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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"Balancing Technical Jargon with Reader Engagement" by Nicholas Harvey via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime
Balancing Technical Jargon with Reader Engagement
As someone who has spent their life in motorsports from the day I left school until I took the plunge and switched careers in 2019, I was constantly being asked when I would write a book about raci…
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February 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Forging into 2025 with the last few chapters of my psychological thriller in my usual writing haunt on a Sunday morning.
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January 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"David Baldacci on Pushing Your Characters Into the Unknown" by @DavidBaldacci via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime #writingthrillers
David Baldacci on Pushing Your Characters Into the Unknown
When you’ve been in the writing business as long as I have, the one thing you need to constantly search for are stories that will challenge you as a novelist, get you out of your comfort zone, make…
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February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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"I Wrote the Kind of Character I Wanted Most to Read About" by Gar Anthony Harwood via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
I Wrote the Kind of Character I Wanted Most to Read About
One of the first things I did upon moving from Los Angeles, California, to Denver, Colorado, last July (a long story for another day) was pay a visit to the Tattered Cover, my local independent boo…
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January 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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"How to Craft a Mystery in Both a Historical and Contemporary Setting" by Amanda Flower via CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime crimereads.com/how-to-craft...
How to Craft a Mystery in Both a Historical and Contemporary Setting
It’s hard to believe that my first novel was published fifteen years ago this coming June. Over fifty published novels later, I have found my place in publishing writing both contemporary and histo…
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May 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century" by Laura McCluskey via CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime crimereads.com/how-to-isola...
How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century
Crafting a compelling mystery is at the core of any good suspense story. It’s the ability to keep readers engaged from the moment the first clue drops in chapter one, through the twists and turns a…
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April 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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“Red Herrings, Foreshadows and Creating a Mystery” via KillZoneBlog #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime killzoneblog.com/2023/08/red-...
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March 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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"Fiction's Most Manipulative Masterminds" by Adam Hamdy via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
Fiction’s Most Manipulative Masterminds
The first two books in my Pendulum series, Pendulum and Freefall, examined the impact of technology on our society. In Aftershock, the third outing for now battle-hardened photojournalist John Wall…
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February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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"The (Bad) Sisterhoods of Crime Fiction" by Caroline Reitz @CWWrites via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #WritingCrime
The (Bad) Sisterhoods of Crime Fiction
Wicked might be the most familiar sister-skeptical story right now, but crime fiction about whether your sister has got your back, or is carefully plunging a knife in it, has been with us for a lon…
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March 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"Are Villains the Most Important Characters?" by Mike Maden @MikeMadenAuthor via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
Are Villains the Most Important Characters?
Are villains the most important characters? That’s a crazy question. It’s also click-batey and nigh on ridiculous.  Or is it?  Villains are the characters we love to hate but secretly we hate the f…
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January 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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“Mixing Genres is All About Messing with Structure” by Stuart Turton @stu_turton via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure
More than the plot, or the characters, I adore books that cross genres and mess with the traditional way stories are told. I’m obsessed by the structure of novels. The God of Small Things by Arundh…
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March 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"New England Gothic, and The Uncanny Making of a Mystery" by Neil Olson via @CrimeReads #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #writingcrime
New England Gothic, and The Uncanny Making of a Mystery
Like most writers, I hate being asked about themes in my work. I am never conscious of having a theme. An obsessive preoccupation with a subject (an old master painting, let’s say) or character typ…
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January 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM