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Cozy to Cold-Blooded: Mystery Shows

…region of England Premise of Show: Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope (played by the marvelous Brenda Blethyn) is the idiosyncratic daughter of an idiosyncratic single father with some emotional issues and…

This Needs to Be Said

…277: How to Make Your Setting Come to Life – Interview with Brenda Jackson (Romance) 287: Character Dynamics in an In-Depth Scene Analysis — Interview with Kiley Reid (Upmarket Fiction)…

Top 10 Book Picks

…pitfalls. Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola: A guide for nonfiction writers everywhere! The book covers some practical advice on where creative nonfiction is going, as well…

When is a Story a Romantic Suspense?

…But the illusive tipping point was still missing for me. So I dug a little deeper. Romance and suspense are mixed equally New York Times bestselling author, Brenda Novak writes,…

June 2023 Leisure Learning: Summer Reading, All Grown Up

…rewritten for adults by some of the world’s most acclaimed authors. Enjoy the different ways John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates recreate Charles Perrault’s Bluebird. Read Kim Addonizio’s retelling of…

Not Just Dudes in Tights: The Wicked + The Divine

…(Irish), James Joyce; and The Norns (Norse), figures from the Harlem Renaissance. This issue is a history and literature lesson.  Another issue shows Ananke throughout the centuries at the beginning…