Thoughts
I write a lot. Essays. Articles. Blog posts. All of them sharing what I’m thinking about. Maybe you think about these things, too.
Murder Most Unladylike
As women, we understand what it feels like to live with fear humming constantly in the background of our lives.
How Much Do Fictional Characters Reflect Their Authors?
Sometimes the characters we create are able to carry off a part of us we don’t generally share with others.
Spring Cleaning for Writers
Clearing the clutter helps us understand what is and isn't important, whether it's objects in our homes or components of our stories.
Finding Hope in Fictional Death
But mysteries cut through the wooliness of our understanding and the demands of the present and invite us to take a step back and think about all those things, precisely because the stakes are so high.
The Story of My Stories
And I realized something I may have known before, but certainly never articulated: that for me, the plot is the last thing I worry about. (Strange admission for a mystery writer to make!).
Why Women Like Murder Mysteries
We like to see justice done, especially when we perceive that the real world isn’t playing fair with us.
Why Read About Murder?
We mystery readers really, really like to read about death. Suspicious deaths, orchestrated deaths, clever deaths, carefully planned deaths. What is up with that?