Murder and Mayhem - A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers
This is an enormously entertaining collection of the best of Lyle's columns for the Mystery Writers of America newsletter, in which the doctor provides detailed and informative answers to questions regarding various aspects of medicine and forensics. Aspiring and experienced mystery writers will achieve verisimilitude, as well as the suspended disbelief of their audiences, by applying Lyle's insights, which he divides into three helpful sections: "Doctors, Hospitals, Illnesses, and Injuries"; "Methods of Murder and Mayhem"; and "Tracking the Perp."
Poets & Writers is a must have periodical for writers who are true students of their occupation. The magazine delivers its readers provocative essays on the literary life, practical guidance for getting published and pursuing a writing career, profiles of poets, fiction writers, and writers of creative nonfiction, and interviews between fellow professionals.
Poets & Writers is a must have periodical for writers who are true students of their occupation. The magazine delivers its readers provocative essays on the literary life, practical guidance for getting published and pursuing a writing career, profiles of poets, fiction writers, and writers of creative nonfiction, and interviews between fellow professionals.
The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end."Fiction Writer's Workshop, 2nd Edition" is designed to help writers foster a strong sense of independence, of being and thinking on their own, of becoming both disciplined and self-evaluative (not self-critical) in order to accomplish for themselves what others seek out in classroom groups.
A Moment on the Edge - 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
A Moment on the Edge is a collection of short stories written by twenty-five of the best women mystery writers in history. They span the years between 1903 and 2003. Some of the writers included in this book are Antonia Fraser, Charlotte Armstrong, Sara Paretsky, Ngaio Marsh and Shirley Jackson.
