Sentences with phrase «other mystery writers»

As a mystery writer, you have an advantage as a reader of other mystery writers (or, a disadvantage — you probably don't want to know whodunit but, in some cases, can't help but figure it out).

If a mystery fails, it fails, there are plenty of other mystery writers out there to publish.

Not exact matches

I'm not quite ready to assign Robert Galbraith / JK Rowling to the ranks of my fave mystery writers, but only because I want to read the other books in the Cormoran Strike series and see how things pan out.

Mann's approach here reminds me of the formulation recently expressed by writer and director Paul Schrader — some filmmakers understand character as an instrument of elucidation, while others (Schrader meant himself and Martin Scorsese) see it as an instrument of mystery.

The film sets true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) in the house of a murdered family where he begins to unravel the mystery surround their deaths and other related murders.

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

A quiet rural town in the English countryside includes among it's inhabitants Nicholas, an author famous for his murder mystery series who, with his long - suffering wife, open their house to other writers as an idyllic retreat.

It's clear that writers Dante Harper and veteran John Logan want the story of Alien: Covenant to be one of answers and explanations rather than questions and mysteries where some are more warranted than others.

The tired old stereotype of a mystery writer as some hard - boiled noir guy with a cigarette in one hand and a tumbler full of whiskey in the other is obsolete.

Sometimes I feel that many mystery writers aren't very visible online... at least to other writers.

* Like other entertainers, mystery writers seem to fall into three categories: — SuperStars: The best - seller list regulars, who usually fight to get out of the genre ASAP.

For two, three or four days, you gather with other readers, writers, librarians, book dealers, literary agents, editors, magazine publishers — all of whom are seriously in love with the mystery and crime genre.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareThe other day, I received this email: Dear Writer Beware, A couple of years ago, I published my mystery novel with [insert name of well - known deadbeat publisher here].

AB: CWC is a national non-profit organization for Canadian mystery and crime writers, associated professionals, and others with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing.

I agree with the other readers that there are definitely more talented mystery writers, whose books I regularly reach for, and that this author could improve upon character development, pacing and building suspense / tension.

I've heard genres other than mystery (romance, for example) have opened participation to writers from myriad publishing venues.

I liked this book for a number of reasons: It is a mystery that let me think I had the answers to who and why — but, then again, maybe not; it sparked my interest to read more by Wilkie Collins (I love it when one author turns me on to other writers!)

Ever since Sara Paretsky's debut novel Indemnity Only in 1982, a steady flow of increasingly popular women mystery writers has emerged, including Patricia Cornwall with her Scarpetta series, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhane Alphabet series, and many others.

And then there are the associations, like the Mystery Writers of America and countless others, that do not allow self - published authors into their ranks at all.

Check out our resource library here at The Kill Zone (down the right sidebar), as well as blogs like Writer Unboxed, Janice Hardy's Fiction University (formerly The Other Side of the Story), K. M. Weiland's Helping Writers Become Authors, Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi's Writers Helping Writers (formerly The Bookshelf Muse), Elizabeth Craig's Mystery Writing is Murder, Joanna Penn's The Creative Penn, John Yeoman's The Wicked Writing Blog, and more.

Attend a Conference: More so than any other genre, mystery readers and writers have the chance to meet others at various meet - ups.

Each year the Mystery Writers of America bestows the Mary Higgins Clark Award to what can generally be deemed a cozy (with a few other criteria).

I wonder how she'd respond if that author knew that Lawrence Block — «recognized as a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and the recipient of a host of other literary awards» as per Kirkus Review — went indie — and is loving it?

Among others, he's won an O. Henry Award, a Grammy, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, and he's the Mystery Writers of America's 2016 Grand Master.

Writers from mystery novelist P.D. James to science - fiction icon Ray Bradbury and numerous others have at least one thing in common: They all love cats.

Now, you need to figure out why the person dropped dead and get to the bottom of the mystery before the other writers, or you, end up suffering the same fate.

Both co-creators have impressive backgrounds: Swiercyznski is the author of several crime novels and other interactive mystery books, whilst Lapham is an award - winning comics writer and artist whose credits include Stray Bullets and Batman: City Of Crime.