Nonfiction: The Fiction Writer's Ally
Doing research for a novel can involve more than history books, archives, and the other usual resources for honing details of terrain,...
The Golden Age of Mystery Writers
I just finished a three-hour class on Dorothy L. Sayers and her book, Gaudy Night. This is the book where Lord Peter Wimsey proposes to...
Be Careful With Conflict
I once read a biography of Earl Stanley Gardner, an attorney and prolific author who wrote close to 150 novels. His most popular books...
