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Top Ten Bits of Writing Advice That you should Ignore

June 29, 2016 James Ziskin 0

Top Ten Bits of Writing Advice That you should Ignore Lest anyone be offended by my thoughts below, understand that the following are my opinions as they apply to me and my writing. I believe […]

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Intrigue in Egypt: How I Show the Sphinx

June 27, 2016 Avram Nobel Ludwig 0

HOW I SHOT THE SPHINX I first went to Egypt in 2005 to shoot a helicopter shot of the Sphinx for a Hollywood action movie. I remember stepping off the plane behind an Egyptian family […]

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The Ten Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

June 24, 2016 Mystery Center 0

Even the best writers can learn from others tips and tricks and ideas for how to conquer the empty page. I love recommending my favorite writing books, singling out a specific title here and there […]

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The Top 10 Scariest Hotels in Fiction and Film . . .

June 23, 2016 Gina Wholsdorf 0

The Top 10 Scariest Hotels in Fiction and Film . . . And The Lessons They Teach Us 10) Hotel Dolphin – 1408: Mike Enslin writes book-length top ten lists of haunted places. He goes to […]

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Ten Books That Will Explain Current Strife in the World

June 22, 2016 Brad Taylor 0

Ten Books That Will Explain Current Strife in the World I write military counter-terrorism thrillers, which, by design, have to parse the world into neat shades of black and white, with perhaps a touch of […]

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TOP BOSTON CRIME NOVELS

June 20, 2016 Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Purdy and Douglas Purdy 0

TOP BOSTON CRIME NOVELS by Thomas O’Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy, authors of Serpents in the Cold and We Were Kings Promised Land (1976), Ceremony (1982), The Widening Gyre (1983) – Robert B. Parker With the dean of American crime fiction, the forefather […]

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Ten Things to Learn from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett

June 17, 2016 William Lashner 0

Ten Things to Learn from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett If you can’t learn from the best, then you’re not reading carefully enough. Here are ten writing tips I learned from the books of Dashiell […]

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Top 10 Most Thrilling Mountain Survival Books

June 15, 2016 Harry Farthing 0

Top 10 Most Thrilling Mountain Survival Books My writing of Summit was inspired by many literary categories—history, adventure, travel—but, above all, by the great mountain stories that accompanied my climbing days. The ten most important, in chronological […]

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Top Ten Culinary Mysteries

June 9, 2016 Katherine Hall Page 0

Top Ten Culinary Mysteries Le mauvais gout mène au crime. Bad taste leads to crime. _____Baron Adolphe De Mareste (1784-1867) “The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste” from Lord Peter Views the Body, Dorothy L. Sayers, […]

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Top Ten Thrillers About Writers

June 9, 2016 Peter Swanson 0

Top Ten Thrillers About Writers It sometimes seems like a cop-out when a writer makes the main character of his or her story another writer. Have they run out of ideas? Is it a form […]

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