Carter Wilson's Making It Up

“I don’t know what it’s about until it’s done—and sometimes it’s on a shelf before I realize what certain things mean.”  – Lori Roy 

Lori Roy’s debut novel, Bent Road, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe …

Robert Bailey is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of THE BOOMERANG, the Jason Rich series, the McMurtrie and Drake legal thrillers, the Bocephus Haynes series, and the inspirational novel, …

“There are no shortcuts, right? It doesn't matter what you're writing—you just have to do it.”  — Mailan Doquang 

Mailan Doquang is an architectural historian turned thriller writer. Mailan received h…

"The only way your journey in publishing ends is if you stop trying."  – Kaira Rouda 

Kaira Rouda is a USA TODAY, Amazon #1 and international bestselling author. She has worked in marketing, real esta…

"I just don’t buy into the whole failure thing—you either succeed or you learn."  – Laura Resau

Laura Resau is the author of The Alchemy of Flowers, her debut novel for adults, and eleven acclaimed bo…

“I got 26 rejections, and I’d kind of given up. Then Simon & Schuster gave me a three-book deal. And I thought, oh, this is awesome—then, oh shit, I have to write the other two.”  – Bryan Gruley

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“Writing it was like chipping away at a mountain with a pair of nail scissors.”  —Ellen Birkett Morris 

Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Awar…

“Not that my work is superior to Rear Window, but I thought—what’s more interesting than a broken leg? A broken mind.”  —A.J. Finn 

A. J. Finn is the author of The Woman in the Window, the #1 internat…

“If I'm going out to sea, I'm doing it in a ship I built, not in the piece of crap they want me to build."  – Matt Goldman quoting Jerry Seinfeld 

Matt Goldman is a New York Times Bestselling author a…

“The best part of writing that first, terrible book was realizing I could write a book. That changed everything.”  – Joshua Moehling 

Joshua Moehling is the USA Today bestselling author of the Ben Pac…

"Two simple words—'what if'—can create thousands of novels."  – Traci Abramson

Traci Hunter Abramson was born in Arizona, and after graduating from Brigham Young University, she worked for the Central…

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She is the first Latina in history to win a Bram Stoker Award. Pelayo writes fairy tales tha…

Bob Johnson is an award-winning short story writer and graduate of the lowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been published by The Common, Philadelphia Stories, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Barcelona Review, …

G.T. Karber is a mystery writer, computer programmer, and the creator of Murdle, the USA Today and #1 Sunday Times bestselling murder-mystery puzzle book series. The first two paperback volumes of Mu…

Emily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of suspense novels, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Secret. After graduating from Auburn with a Bac…

Lori Brand is a lifting enthusiast, group fitness instructor, yoga teacher, and software quality engineer. She’s been a gymnast, dancer, Playboy model, and bodybuilder. Her time in the body wars tren…

Lisa Williamson Rosenberg is an author and psychotherapist specializing in depression, complex trauma and racial identity. She is also a former ballet dancer, with essays published in Longreads, Mama…

Douglas Brunt attended The Haverford School and graduated from Duke University. He was formerly a management consultant for the information tech company, Booz Allen & Hamilton, and served as a direct…

James L’Etoile uses his 29 years behind bars as an influence in his novels, short stories, and screenplays. He is a former associate warden in a maximum-security prison, a hostage negotiator, facilit…

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen’s books have been translated into 40 languages, and more than 40 million copies have been sold around the world. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Awar…