Fiction writing

May
30
Would you like to work with me on your novel?

Would you like to work with me on your novel?

Here's how it might work.
1 min read
May
11
Analyzing the first 300 words of the first three books in the Larkin Day Mystery series

Analyzing the first 300 words of the first three books in the Larkin Day Mystery series

What contracts do I make with my readers?
6 min read
May
10
Analyzing the first three paragraphs of Louise Penny's Three Pines novels

Analyzing the first three paragraphs of Louise Penny's Three Pines novels

What each series of sentences can tell us.
7 min read
May
09
Disinterring Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead

Disinterring Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead

What are we going to discover — and what are we going to steal?
4 min read
Apr
28
Shakespeare in the Park With Murder is now available for pre-order!

Shakespeare in the Park With Murder is now available for pre-order!

Here's what you need to know about the third LARKIN DAY MYSTERY.
1 min read
Apr
27
On Three Pines

On Three Pines

Why I love reading Louise Penny.
1 min read
Apr
24
Dissecting Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep, Part 3

Dissecting Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep, Part 3

What makes this story scary?
3 min read
Apr
17
Dissecting Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep, Part 2

Dissecting Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep, Part 2

Making every character fully human (even the mermaids).
3 min read
Apr
13
Dissecting Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep

Dissecting Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep

What it does, why it works, and whether I can steal it.
3 min read