I’ve been lurking on Substack for a while wondering: should I? could I? My mystery thriller, Swallowtail, is coming out from Galiot Press in November. I want people to know about it. I want them to meet my sassy, arty…
Many of us know her from her newsletter, Your Weekly Writing Exercise, chock-full of craft tips, writing exercises, and inspiration; or have used her book, Your Book Starts Here, to plot our stories. We’ve benefitted from her W-structure workshop and…
In Kelly J. Ford’s gripping Southern noir, Real Bad Things, Jane Mooney returns to her Arkansas hometown after a body that might be the abusive stepfather she confessed to murdering 25 years ago surfaces in a river. The police were…
Acclaimed author Amina Akhtar’s fiercely funny and twisty new thriller, Kismet, is a razor-sharp takedown of Sedona’s crystal-hugging wellness community. It’s also the thought-provoking story of Ronnie Khan: a young, self-effacing Pakistani-American woman who follows her seemingly perfect best friend,…
Ted Flanagan’s dark debut thriller, Every Hidden Thing, brings together an EMS worker whose son has a life-threatening illness, a corrupt politician, a dirty cop, a disillusioned reporter, and a deranged domestic terrorist in a twisty tale that grabs you…
The Long Lost Jules is an immersive royal mystery braiding a long-lost descendant of Queen Katharine Parr, espionage, and love. Amy’s life of quiet solitude as a London private banker is upended by the appearance of Leo, an Oxford don….