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Trent Dalton is one of the biggest contemporary writers in Australia, best known for his debut novel Boy Swallows Universe, a semi-autobiographical coming of age story which was made into an award-winning 2024 Netflix miniseries. His new book Gravity Let
I should be able to see every plot twist coming. After all, I wrote the book on plot. Literally. I wrote a bestselling guide called Save the Cat! Writes a Novel that teaches writers how stories work. Therefore, I shouldn’t
I first heard about Walter F. White, the spy, when I was in elementary school. I grew up in a mixed and Black family, the lightest child in every bunch. Possibly the lightest child in history, I thought at the
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Sarah Langan, Trad Wife (Atria) “[A] slick, eerie horror outing…a memorable entry in the recent slew of horror novels and thrillers sending up the trad wife
I, like virtually every other younger small-town American millennial I know, grew up reading a series called Encyclopedia Brown. You must know the one: A tweenage resident of an unspecified state catches criminals left and right whom the town’s police
Contrary to popular wisdom, it is not necessary to write what you know. A decidedly non-exhaustive list of exhibits: Tolstoy presumably did not know how to be a woman when he wrote Anna Karenina; Tom Clancy was an insurance agent
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” –William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night * I was thirteen the first time I visited New Orleans. It would be two years before Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour
When a crime-fiction conference recently came to San Francisco, a friend of mine issued me a challenge: since Capri Sanzio, the protagonist of my current mystery series, is a true-crime walking tour guide in San Francisco, I should try my
Three knocks. “Victoria, wake up.” I drift back to sleep, to thoughts. To the work of my Abuelo. There was something in that methodical yet brutal work he did for years. Although, that’s the place where I think he was
“Whenever I see your interview with Don Harris of NBC, I am so saddened by your constricted and contorted body language that does not match your positive words. Obviously, you were saying what you were told. Even your Aunt Carol
Genetics have fascinated me since I was a teenager. My interest didn’t spawn from a well-meaning science teacher or an Oscar winning documentary. My interest in genetics came from one man—Dean Koontz. I devoured his novels as a teen. Like
I didn’t set out to write a book that includes as much ghost sex as there is in my debut story collection, Out of Body, but I guess it’s tough to know exactly what it is you’re writing until after
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