3 essays
Genre Craft
Every moving-forward device in modern literary fiction — the propulsive chapter-end, the withheld truth, the structural misdirection — was borrowed from the crime novel. It should keep borrowing.
Genre Craft
There are two ways to break a genre rule. One is cleverly subverting the form and earning trust. The other is writing the wrong book. Here's how to tell.
Genre Craft
Genre writers are taught to fear tropes. But the best genre novels aren't trope-free — they're the ones that understand tropes as contracts with the reader.