Jungle Red Writers

 LUCY BURDETTE : I admire writers who manage to block out an entire plot before they begin writing. I am not one of them. I have a premise a...

“Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is....

LUCY BURDETTE : Having Dennis visit yesterday and talking about the essays of "true confessions from both sides of the therapy couc...

Hank (taking photo) Rhys and Debs at Bouchercon! HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN : So. Bouchercon. All kinds of fun and friendship PILES of books. B...



LUCY BURDETTE : With each of the mysteries I’ve written and had published (15 so far*), I've been required to turn in three chapters...

LUCY BURDETTE : You may well have read on Facebook that Penguin Random House is not renewing the Key West foodie mystery series...

"Great leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patto...

LUCY BURDETTE : Today I’m celebrating because the third book in my advice column mystery series is finally out as an ebook ! Dr. Butterma...

LUCY BURDETTE : I have often wondered whether the mystery series I wrote before the food critic mysteries might have gotten more traction...

DEBORAH CROMBIE : Here at Jungle Red we all write crime fiction, so we are accustomed to imagining and inventing all sorts of corruption an...

Deborah Crombie : Don't worry, I'm not talking about Twelve Step stuff here, but about the little things that creep into our lives....