If you're old enough to remember the excitement surrounding each new Harry Potter book, then you're likely familiar with how preordering works. But if you're not, or you're "one of…
Inspiration comes from different places. For years I’d struggle with fleshing out my characters. I had trouble coming up with reasons for why my characters act the way they do.…
When I was in first grade, my father came to my school in his police uniform to talk about fingerprinting. I remember how proud I was to see him up…
(And Why It's a Good Show for Writers) If you don’t know what The Fall is, it’s a BBC/RTE (Irish) series available on Netflix. It’s basically the classic cat-mouse game…
In preparing to write my new book Fortune's Flame, I listened to and read several historical books, mostly nonfiction, and not all of them taking place in the era of…