Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense
    Unavailable
    How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense
    Unavailable
    How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense
    Ebook297 pages3 hours

    How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

    By Carolyn Wheat

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Writing is all about creating an experience for the reader. Whether you're giving them a brain-teasing puzzle or an adrenaline-soaked emotional roller coaster-ride, this book helps you shape your fiction to create maximum enjoyment for your readers.
    Now you can learn the craft directly from one of the most respected contemporary writers in the field, Carolyn What, winner of multitudinous awards and nominations. What knows what editors want, and shows you how to achieve your writing an publishing goals. How To Write Killer Fiction is a handbook that no writer of mystery or suspense can afford to be without.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPerseverance Press
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781564747051
    Unavailable
    How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense
    Author

    Carolyn Wheat

    Carolyn Wheat is an attorney, editor, and award-winning author. She has worked on both sides of the legal fence, defending indigents accused of crime for the Brooklyn office of the Legal Aid Society and giving legal advice to the New York City Police Department. Wheat’s short stories have won the Anthony, Agatha, Shamus, and Macavity Awards, and two of her six Cass Jameson Mysteries have been nominated for Edgar Awards.

    Related authors

    Related to How to Write Killer Fiction

    Related ebooks

    Reference For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Serial Fiction for the Digital Age

      Oct 10, 2018

      For many readers andwriters, the serial novel calls to mind tattered newsprint, Victorian armchairs, and authors such as Dickens, Dumas, and Dostoevsky. For others, the form may hark back to pulp magazines and popular adventures of the early to mid-1

      3 min read

    • Article

      Subplots Aren’t Secondary

      Jun 19, 2019

      Subplots Aren’t Secondary
      6 min read

    • Article

      Character, Know Thyself: The Essentials Of Character Awareness

      May 8, 2019

      Early drafts are an exercise in getting to know your character and her story—you are, in essence, telling the story to yourself first so that you can figure out what to add or omit when fine-tuning the story for readers. I encourage you to pen more p

      8 min read

    • Article

      Sinister, Yet Sympathetic

      May 8, 2019

      Sinister, Yet Sympathetic
      7 min read

    • Article

      Tiffany D. Jackson

      Aug 8, 2022

      Tiffany D. Jackson
      12 min read

    • Article

      John Fram

      Jun 10, 2020

      John Fram
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Nayomi Munaweera

      Dec 5, 2019

      Good Talk by Mira Jacob This is simply the best literary (in gorgeous graphic novel form) exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in the U.S. I’ve seen in years. Jacob talks about what being a parent in our current trash-fire of an age is lik

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Genre Of Resistance

      Aug 15, 2018

      Mine (University of New Mexico Press, March), a collection of personal, lyric, and investigative essays about ownership—the corporeal, the familial, and the intellectual in form—as well as the realities of loss and isolation and the idea of belonging

      12 min read

    • Article

      Shelf Life

      Apr 6, 2023

      Shelf Life
      6 min read

    • Article

      Trope: My Favorite Dirty Word

      Oct 18, 2021

      Trope: My Favorite Dirty Word
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Jonathan Escoffery

      Dec 15, 2021

      This year, perhaps more than any other in my adult life, I’ve yearned for narratives that promise big things will happen in the lives of the characters they feature. The post A Year in Reading: Jonathan Escoffery appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Penguin Pride.

      Jun 28, 2019

      Penguin Pride.
      16 min read

    • Article

      Porochista Khakpour on Stephen Dixon: An Excerpt from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #63

      Aug 4, 2021

      When you really live, and when you really tackle that life in your art, the pages never quite end. The narration might drop out, but the story is still in motion. If done right, the border blurs, the boundaries of life and of art fade into each other

      8 min read

    • Article

      No Guts, No Glory

      Oct 2, 2018

      I’D PRACTICED MY STORY in the car, making key details anonymous. I called my city “a Michigan college town.” I changed everyone’s name. And I figured that even if the audience despised me, it wasn’t like I lived in Chicago; I’d never have to see them

      18 min read

    • Article

      Changing the Face of Crime Fiction

      Dec 27, 2018

      “It can be lonely. … And there have been times when I’ve retreated to my hotel room, emotionally exhausted from being visibly invisible all day.” That’s a line from Rachel Howzell Hall’s 2015 essay, “Colored and Invisible”—the inspiration for this ar

      9 min read

    • Article

      It’s Kind of a Funny Story: A Conversation With Susan Jane Gilman

      Feb 3, 2020

      This past fall I was once again in Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library to hear an author speak about her new book. I went in with no real expectations—I hadn’t read any of Susan Jane Gilman’s books yet; I just take any opportunity to hear writers talk ab

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Fiction No. 244

      Sep 15, 2019

      The Art of Fiction No. 244
      30 min read

    Reviews for How to Write Killer Fiction

    4/5

    23 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Very solid primer on writing mystery and suspense.
    • 5/5
      I LOVE this book. It has so much great information, hints, tips and I have learned so much from it. Any author in the Mystery or Thriller genre should own a copy. It may be a few years old but the information it contains is essential. Out of the 400+ craft of writing books in my library, this has to be in my top 3.
    • 4/5
      I didn’t exactly read this cover to cover, but it gave me a lot to think about when it comes to mystery and suspense and the differences between them. It contained some of the best explanation and examples of different genres that I’ve seen. I’m always on the lookout for some sort of definitive list of genres to use as categories on my blog, and this gave me a good place to start. (By the way, if anyone has a list of genres that *they* use, please share!) It also helped me narrow down what exactly I’m trying to write. This was a good Kindle purchase, and I’m sure I will use it as a reference in years to come.