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A Novel Idea: Guthrie Bookstore Takes on Literacy, Dogs, and the Cult of MAGA

Bookstores, libraries, and other literary souls have long been safe harbors for ideas, community, and other dangerous ideals, so I always have to check them out when I stumble acro...

Your Idea Starts Here / Goatman

Issue No. 117

Defeating the Next-Book Willies

by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell September of 2009 was Dan Brown week in the world of publishing. It had been six years since his mega-hit The Da Vinci Code. There was a lot of...

7 Creative Murders in Fiction

As a storyteller, creating a mystery is nightmare fuel. How do you come up with an original premise? How do you plant clues and red herrings without giving away the ending? How do...

The Tortured Writers Department, a guest post by Jennifer Pearson

Sometimes coming up with a publishable idea for a story feels harder than the actual writing.

6 Mystery Novels with Unorthodox Settings and Setups

There’s a universe of possibility in the crime mystery. While certain settings have become a staple of fiction—the Agatha Christie murder, the hard-boiled detective, the modern pol...

Heather Harper Ellett on Narrative Therapy, Southern Noir, and “Re-authoring” Our Lives

In the fall of 2019, my debut novel came out: Ain’t Nobody Nobody—a quirky, small town literary crime novel set in East Texas. It was reviewed well. I got compared to Carl Hiassen,...

The Names by Florence Knapp

What’s In A Name? The Names by Florence Knapp is a powerful contemporary novel that consumed me from the start. It is a very unique read – one life; three names and the imagined li...

Elegant Dirty Diary Entry

New books by César Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao Hai, Maïa Hruska, and Missouri Williams.

Jareer And The Chocolate Factory

“You know that feeling at college, at some point you’re turned mute and no one gets what’s going on inside you”Excerpt FromJareer and the Chocolate FactorySameer Khan BrohiSpecific...

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7 novels featuring a book within a book

Is there anything more delightful than discovering a book within a book? A few years ago, I shared some of my favorite epistolary novels. Today’s book list goes one nerdy […] The p...

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Five publishes and a bestselling author sue Meta over AI copyright infringement

Patrica McConnell on the Challenge and Joy of Writing Mysteries as a Nonfiction Author

Last night I took a photo of my television screen—because maybe, just maybe, the guy on Wheel of Fortune could be a model for a new character I’m envisioning in my next novel, a fo...

The Idiot

A different sort of crime story from the Serial folks.

Great American Novels: The College Years

The Catcher in the Rye: The College Years If you thought Holden Caulfield was insufferable before, you’ll find that expulsion from prep school was a mere warm-up for the incessant...

The Facts About Writing Fiction (and Nonfiction, Too!)

What it looks like creating a graphic novel that requires CIA approval.

Page One: “The Sun Is Also a Star” (2019)

Screenplay by Tracy Oliver, based on the novel by Nicola YoonContinue reading on Go Into The Story »

CHARACTERS WHO LOVE BOOKS: NATIONAL DROP EVERYTHING AND READ DAY!

This post first appears on RissiWrites.com and is © RissiWrites.com and RissiJC We all love a good character arc or personality quirk... Source The post CHARACTERS WHO LOVE BOOKS:...

AN ATTEMPT AT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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How to Write Like Harriet the Spy

By Kit Carlson I have a new lease on my writing life, and I owe it all to Harriet the Spy. I was just cleaning the guest room, organizing the shelves where we keep the huge collect...

Finding the Right Book—The Prison Literature Project

By Andrea A. Firth The letters are brief. Handwritten in pencil on a half-sheet of lined notebook paper folded inside a stamped envelope. One person asks for a dictionary. Another...

How a Hollywood Screenwriter Transitioned to Writing His First Novel

I had spent my entire career training myself not to do precisely what I was trying to do now.

Preview: ANONYMOUS JANE throws noir into colorful light