Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense: Break into the Exciting and Profitable Field of Book, Screenplay, and Television (Writing Guides)
by Tom Byrnes

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Book Review: True Crime CAN Pay
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Summary of Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense: Break into the Exciting and Profitable Field of Book, Screenplay, and Television (Writing Guides)

Still, Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense is a fine introduction to the genre, with advice strewn throughout from the likes of Ann Rule (The Stranger Beside Me), Harry MacLean (In Broad Daylight), and Jack Olsen (Son: A Psychopath and His Victims). True crime takes a certain type of writer, one willing to face years of research, hundreds of interviews (some with psychopathic murderers), hours of tedious testimony, plenty of hanging around waiting for people to say something interesting, and possible death threats (but, hey, they're usually from people already on death row). And the writing itself is complicated. "No matter how bad the crime was or how bad the criminal was," says author Jaye Fletcher (A Perfect Gentleman), "describing the crime itself only takes four pages. So what do you do with the other four hundred?" If you can figure that out, you'll find, as Byrnes says, that "crime does pay--especially if you are a writer." --Jane Steinberg

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