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6 Books That Helped Me Get Into the Mind of a Killer

In No Lie Lasts Forever, a retired serial killer coaxes a disgraced journalist into finding the imposter trading on his name. I never thought I would write a “serial killer novel,” but when an idea clamps its teeth down and won’t let go, well, you succumb and start doing your…
Mark Stevens
June 2, 2025
Miscellany

Coastal Noir: Santa Cruz as a Character

I was twenty-two the first time I saw the ocean. To my utter shock, I discovered that the Pacific was ice cold beneath the blazing sun and bobbing with blobs of tar leaking from oil pumps off the Santa Barbara shore. Still, it was undeniably beautiful, both in cold reality…
Victoria Helen Stone
June 3, 2025
Listicles

Because Motherhood isn’t Always Flowers and Breakfast in Bed

Mother’s Day usually shows up dipped in pastels and wrapped in performative gratitude, but motherhood? That’s another beast entirely. It’s brutal. It’s sacred. It’s messy, fractured, feral. And if Sigmund Freud taught us anything (besides the fact that therapy is expensive for a reason), it’s that the mother-child bond is…
BookTrib
May 9, 2025
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Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

It’s the most paradoxical idea of all. Somehow, it’s both the most tempting and the most potentially disastrous. Because if we’re supposed to “write what you love” and “write what you fear,” all of us have those same passions and apprehensions about the same thing: writing! So what could be…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
May 23, 2025
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Chasing Chords, Women, and Ghosts of War in “Wither Creek”

To say Bill Ehnert appreciates women is an understatement. Whatever female strays into his peripheral vision, he sees through his own particular pair of rose-colored glasses, which makes Ken Rossal’s newest novel, Wither Creek, a joyous and libidinous ride. Starting out at 16, living in Smalltown America, Rossal’s everyman first…
Sherri Daley
May 27, 2025
The Umbrella Makers SonTrending

A Brutal Regime. A Family Torn Apart. A Fight to Survive.

Tod Lending is a multi-talented award-winning producer, director, and cinematographer who specializes in human interest documentaries that demonstrate the resilience of spirit and the triumph of humanity in a variety of challenging situations during his 40-year career in filmmaking. Nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award for his film Legacy,…
Linda Hitchcock
March 19, 2025