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Showing posts with label Thrillerfest. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Thrillerfest. Show all posts

Monday, April 07, 2025

Big Conference vs. Small Conference

By Thomas Kies I confess, I’m signed up to go to Bouchercon in New Orleans in September. After attending the one in San Diego two year...

Monday, December 27, 2021

High Anxiety

By Thomas Kies When writing a thriller, I’ve been told that you need to keep ramping up the stakes, turn up the heat, and escalate the dang...

Monday, November 29, 2021

Plot Twists and Being Lucky

By Thomas Kies One of the topics I teach in my creative writing class at the college is how to write effective plot twists. In many cases it...

Friday, July 19, 2019

Conference Envy

My fellow Type M'er, Thomas Kies, posted a report on Thrillerfest, a writer's conference held in New York this month and I co...

Monday, July 15, 2019

Thrillerfest XIV

I’d never been to Thrillerfest in New York. I’d heard it was pricy…and it is. Of course it is, it's New York. But it's also t...

Friday, July 13, 2018

Writing as Play

Reading Donis's post this morning reinforced what I was thinking about last night. Yesterday I was in New York City attending CraftFes...

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