With the stigma of self-publishing removed in our modern world, today's writer has many more options to publish.

I’ve always wanted to know what was behind a closed door, or going on in a stranger’s mind.

The real and fictional bookstores that inspired Fortune's Cove Books in AN EXCUSE FOR MURDER.

For THE BRIDE, Wendy Clarke's inspiration was a black and white photograph of an old dockland warehouse which she'd seen in a coffee shop.

Lynn Cahoon has a mystery file with news emails about local murders kept inside.

Owen Laukkanen has always felt drawn to the ocean, and the mountains and the kind of chilly moodiness of the rainforest, and he's tried to evoke that more and more in his writing...

I'm delighted to be teaching another series of writing workshops at the Norwood Public Library this spring! This time, the focus is on writing short stories.

Discover how to find inspiration, craft tension elements, and draft your own short story.

My one piece of advice to all writers is to write. Write anything and everything, write wherever you are, however you can and write what excites you.

Goal, Motivation and Conflict by Debra Dixon and The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler. Those books helped me learn to plot my stories.

I think one of the things that holds new writers back is the idea that a first draft is supposed to be perfect. It’s easy to fall into the trap of self-editing or giving up partway through a manuscript, but first drafts aren’t supposed to be perfect or pretty. They’re supposed to be messy.