
How Pantsing-to-Plotting Made a “Serious” Author Out of Me by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
True story: A couple I know received free windows from a friend who ran a
True story: A couple I know received free windows from a friend who ran a
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Keep Your Eyes on Me is my first standalone thriller after the Cat Connolly trilogy
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If you’re a writer – published or unpublished – you have been approached by someone
Readers often ask where I get my ideas from (a question to which I can’t
When I was working on the long-running drama series, Heartbeat, we were often told that
I started out on the Hildegard of Meaux and the current Brother Chandler series with
Friday, June 26th 2020. Homeschooling and the submission of the final set of edits on
This week I thought I’d delve into the often asked question of pantser or plotter?
Last week’s column looked at storyboarding so this week I thought we’d continue with the
There is an iconic and heart-breaking scene in the film On the Waterfront in which
Some novelists are all but born knowing they should write. Some study literature, or creative
Commercial crime fiction almost always demands resolution. It’s implicitly understood that when a reader buys
In September 2019, Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service in London, gave an
When the idea for a new detective novel, None the Wiser popped into my head