Writing Fiction

Warren Adler - The novel as real-life teaching tool

Isabel Allende - What is fiction, after all, anyway?

David Baldacci - Writing a book that's nothing like your others

Melissa Bank - Lit, Yes. Chick, No.

Rita Mae Brown - Getting away with murder: easier than you think

Stephen L. Carter - What happened when he crossed over from the nonfiction side

John Connolly - What a mystery is, is no mystery

Robert Crais - Robert Crais on his Michael Connelly connection.

E. L. Doctorow - What to ___ out

Sue Grafton - Having a good time

Tim Green - How much violence belongs "offstage" in a thriller?

Oscar Hijuelos - Why first person is his last resort

Laura Lippman - She's a Baltimorean, hon...

Walter Mosley - The Golden Age of Black Literature

Robert B. Parker - How food and sex figure in a mystery

Ridley Pearson - Making a series more than a bunch of reruns

Anna Quindlen - What's wrong with writing old-fashioned books?

Lisa Scottoline - Why Lisa Scottoline is scared while she's writing

Peter Straub - How does he scare us so?

Scott Turow - Is more better?

Andrew Vachss - Suspension of disbelief is not a good thing

Randall Wallace - Finding the "sacred moments" of the story