Memorable characters are at the heart of crime writing success Joseph Wambaugh was a Los Angeles Police Department detective sergeant before he …
Write a thriller: Get inside your character
A writer must feel what his characters feel to convey the emotion and sensation The great Belgian crime noveliest Georges Simenon described writing …
Write a thriller: Don’t use the magic hacker
The computer 'hacker' character undermines the credibility of many thrillers The use of a hacker character in Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's …