Year: 2025

Tell us a little about your background. What influenced you to write?I think writing is in my blood. Both my parents were lovers of the English language and of the written word. My mum, like […]

by Tracy Wolff             One of my favorite things about being a mom is the time I spent reading to my boys as they were growing up. They’re older now (the youngest is nineteen) but […]

Nicole Baart             I’m currently working with a number of emerging writers (talented people who I like to think of as pre-published). We email, connect over Zoom, and share resources and ideas. From time to […]

When I was asked to make a list of beloved Christmas Mysteries there were certain authors that immediately came to mind. My list is made up of mysteries written in England in the nineteenth and […]

Emma Stonex, The Sunshine Man Is a person ever a hundred percent evil? It’s a question that has long troubled humanity, and one that compelled me to write The Sunshine Man. What drives someone to […]

By Martha Waters As a romance author who spent her entire childhood devouring Nancy Drew books, it’s perhaps unsurprising that I developed a taste in adulthood for romantic cozy mysteries. Spare me grisly novels featuring […]

by Zefyr Lisowski “Never waste your pain,” the titular protagonist of Saint Maud says at two separate points of the 2019 film—first to a man asking for alms, and second in prayer to God shortly […]

by Holly Seddon At a 1970 American Film Institute seminar, Alfred Hitchcock outlined the difference between mystery and suspense. Mystery, he explained, is an intellectual process. In a whodunnit, the audience is being asked to […]

Emma Stonex, The Sunshine Man What It Takes to Write a Killer with Depth and a Victim with Agency Is a person ever a hundred percent evil? It’s a question that has long troubled humanity, […]