M.C. Beaton’s Top Ten Writing Rules Do not overwork your manuscript, striving for perfection. Avoid literary snobbery. Don’t try to appear more erudite than you are. Believe passionately that what you have written is good […]
The Brain: The Greatest Mystery of All? I still remember the day I fell in love with the alluring, impenetrable mystery of the brain. I was sixteen, during a humid July in summer school. (I […]
The Recipe for a Great Short Story (Editor’s Note: John Floyd has written over a half dozen stories for the Strand. His stories are an editor’s dream, they are written cleanly, always have a twist, […]
Noir and Romance: A Marriage Made in Heaven or Hell? What defines noir fiction? The language is lyrical, evocative, brooding, and a touch philosophical. But what about the characters and plot? Which do you remember […]
February Reads: Reviews of the Forgotten Girls and Nobody Walks With threats of more crippling blizzards still hovering on the horizon, what’s better than stockpiling a bit of extra reading material? For this month’s list, […]
Edgar Allan Poe is less a man of mystery and more a man of mysteries—from the ones that fired from the tip of his pen to start-gun the detective genre to the ones surrounding his life […]
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