Any event that happens in The Hamptons has got to be the biggest and best. Of course, it does. And, so it was last weekend with the HamptonsWhoDunIt. Billed as the only event of its kind in the whole NorthEast, the inaugural Mystery and Crime Festival in East Hampton, New York, attracted more than 4o bestselling crime fiction and true crime authors including guests of honor, Michael Connelly, Anthony Horowitz and Lisa Jewell.
They came to entertain, inform and to talk about their writing processes, their characters; what they enjoy writing and what scares them. Continue reading “Bestselling Authors Descend on The Hamptons To Talk About Mystery & Crime Writing”
Wow! I just read the most fascinating step-by-step account of exactly how The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides shot to the top of the bestseller charts earlier this year. Aspiring authors: Listen up. There’s a lesson to be learned here. 
You would think that A.J. Finn would know all the rules of writing genre fiction especially psychological thrillers. Just before his first novel hit the #1 slot on the New York Times bestseller list four weeks ago, he was an executive editor at William Morrow publishing company working on the novels of authors like Karin Slaughter and Val McDermid. Yet, in The Woman In the Window ( Rear Window, the movie, meets The Girl On The Train) Finn breaks a lot of big rules.