If you want to be a writer, you need to read first. Read a lot. That advice coms from none other than Stephen King who says in his book On Writing: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have time (or the tools) to write.” King has also said that he reads -...
Domestic thrillers set out to unnerve you. The settings are familiar, the situations disconcerting. The ones I like best have me questioning what I would do should I ever find myself in the protagonist’s place. They have me frantically turning the pages, and making...
I’m an established, award-winning author of YA novels and trilogies, many with a dystopian bent, like the Slated trilogy and Mind Games; others delve into the supernatural, like my newest, a ghost story called Scare Me. But I’ve spent the last two years pursuing a...
Some deaths are so bizarre, brutal, or baffling that they remain unsolved for years, decades, or even centuries. Here are five cases of mysterious deaths where foul play was suspected, but never proven.
Some people binge-eat Doritos or binge-watch Netflix when they’re stressed out. Me? I binge-read books with kick-ass heroes. Not superheroes, mind you, but regular guys who don’t need a mask and cape to fight evil.
The only way to solve a mystery, as a writer, is to become a criminal.
