Month: March 2026

1. Shadow Strike feels ripped from the headlines. When you’re writing about Iran’s proxy warfare, how do you decide what’s plausible enough for fiction versus what crosses into classified or speculative territory?   Honestly, the real world continues […]

by Patrick Hoffman, author of FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS ​I started writing Friends Helping Friends without knowing anything about it. No plot, no outline, no end goal. I’d been suffering through six months of depression after a novel I’d been working on had died on […]

by Joshilyn Jackson In my twenties, I worked as a babysitter and a bartender, trying to figure out how to write novels on my own time. I passed the slow hours holding a sleeping baby […]

by Peter Abrahams Confession: If it’s bad then I’m real bad. I’m not talking about the rueful kind of laughter that comes when you read over a passage that you thought was pretty swell during the writing and […]

By C. L . Miller The locked-room mystery has always been crime fiction’s boldest contract with the reader. It promises the impossible —a crime committed where no one could enter or leave — and then […]