Writing a crime thriller is a lot of fun but it requires a great deal of planning. I have always admired authors who are able to churn out a book or two every year!

When I started writing my book The Sinister Silence, I had titled it Silenced. I had intended to write a love story. However, I do not remember exactly when I started to kill some of my characters.

Writing is an art. Not all great writers are born with a natural flair for writing. How do they develop the skill then? In a creative writing course that I attended over a decade ago, I learned the first simple rule