Recently, as my publisher and I began to prepare for the release of my new book, I updated my author bio for the first time in years. I try to be as tight-lipped as possible with personal details, and in this case I ruthlessly whittled down the bio to a single sentence that was essentially…
I’ve learned there’s always a new way to tell a story. Having written successful books on the Titanic and Amelia Earhart, I know from experience that if you dig deeply enough, you’ll often find surprising new details and angles to make it fresh. In both books, of course, readers already know the end of the…
What is it about someone showing up at your house carrying a suitcase? Do you hear the Jaws music? There’s nothing quite as illustrative of what “point of view” means as when you view your home through the eyes of a guest. Why did you not see the spider webs on the chandelier? Why did…
It’s an understatement to say we love thrillers. It’s our favorite genre and has been for the longest time, more specifically ever since we became obsessed with Eric Jerome Dickey’s slick, sensual, fast-paced sagas back in the early aughts. Lit fic comes in as a close second because we are partial to long-winded character studies…
