Month: February 2019

I’m trying to sort out the difference between suspense and thriller before I appear on a Thriller panel at a mystery conference. You never understand something until you write about it, so here goes: Genre vs. Technique This is the first thing to sort out—are we talking about a literary technique that may show up…

I’m not swearing, honest. It’s the name of the conference: Bloody Scotland. In Scotland, they sell more crime books than any other genre (even romance, which is the top seller in the United States). So it was my great honor to visit the Bloody Scotland conference in Stirling last September. They invited me to read as…