October 11, 2024  •  12 min read Every book has a story behind it. Not the story on the page, but the story of how it came to exist. Where the idea started. What obstacles appeared along the way. What the writer learned in the process of bringing it to…

October 18, 2024  •  9 min read The thrillers that stay with me longest are never the ones with clear heroes and villains. They’re the ones that leave me uncertain about who I should have been rooting for. Moral ambiguity isn’t about making everyone equally bad. It’s about acknowledging the…

October 25, 2024  •  7 min read Every writer has a different relationship with research. Some treat it as a necessary evil, doing the minimum required to avoid embarrassing mistakes. Others disappear down research rabbit holes for months, accumulating far more information than they’ll ever use. I fall somewhere in…

November 1, 2024  •  10 min read There’s a difference between suspense and surprise. Surprise is a car crash. Suspense is watching two cars approach an intersection, knowing they can’t both stop in time, and having to wait for the impact. Psychological thrillers live in that waiting space. The tension…

November 8, 2024  •  6 min read The difference between a character you forget and a character who stays with you often comes down to one thing: how they behave when everything goes wrong. Anyone can write a character going through their normal day. The real test is writing that…

November 15, 2024  •  8 min read There’s a reason revenge stories have been with us since the beginning of storytelling. From ancient Greek tragedies to modern psychological thrillers, we keep returning to the same fundamental question: what happens when someone decides to take justice into their own hands? I’ve…