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Guest Post: Kate Voss’s Top 5 Detectives

This special guest post is from Kate Voss. She’s talking about her Top 5 detectives, leading up to the upcoming movie based on the classic Encyclopedia Brown series. Take it away Kate!

Top Five Detectives in Literary History

Nothing compares to jumping into an alternate reality, being presented with a string of clues, and then being left to wonder how to solve a mystery. The pure wonderment and complex solutions that mystery novels allow readers to experience is the reason they are my favorite genre. Continue reading “Guest Post: Kate Voss’s Top 5 Detectives”

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Evolution of a Character

by Mary Sutton / @mary_sutton73

I’ve heard it said recently that character is king. Give a reader an engaging, likeable character (or characters) and he’ll forgive you a few plot holes (not craters, but “oopsies”). One of the things that makes characters engaging is development. Your protagonist starts as one person and grows to become a richer, fuller person – hopefully. Flat characters are hard to love. Continue reading “Evolution of a Character”