Historical Novelist Lynn Cullen, Part 2: The Craft of Art

August 6, 2014 · by Christina Kaylor | in Author Interviews, Craft, The Writing Life | tagged critique groups, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances Osgood, historical fiction, historical novels, Leonardo's Notebooks, Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe, Nancy Carpenter, Poe Cottage in the Bronx, SCBWI, sensory language in fiction, The Writing Life, travel as research, using bibliographies for research, what It means to be a woman writer, women artists and writers | 9 Comments

In Part 1 of my interview with Lynn Cullen (see July 30th), I briefly discussed her break-out novel, Mrs. Poe. But as Cullen says herself, “It takes years to figure out your craft and the industry. Those who want a short cut, well, it doesn’t happen.” Back when she was a young mother finishing her English […]

Historical Novelist Lynn Cullen, Part 1: Mrs. Poe, Frances Osgood, and the Author Herself

July 30, 2014 · by Christina Kaylor | in Author Interviews, The Writing Life | tagged "The Raven", 1845 New York, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's smeared reputation, Frances Osgood, historical fiction, historical novel, Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe, Poe as literary critic, Public reaction to "The Raven", Rufus Griswold, Samuel Osgood, Townsend Prize | 19 Comments

Received this post as an email? Click on the blue title to read in your browser. I hadn’t seen my friend Lynn Cullen since the launch of her historical novel Reign of Madness in 2011, though we’d been in touch via email. But this morning we were meeting for breakfast at Goldberg’s Deli in Toco […]

The History of Crime Fiction – Part I

February 18, 2014 · by Brenda Lloyd | in The Story of Books | tagged Agatha Christie Queen of the Crime Novel, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chan, crime fiction, Dashiell Hammett, detective novel, Dorothy Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, Hercule Poirot, history of crime fiction, Miss Marple, Poe Father of the Detective Novel, Raymond Chandler, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Moonstone first modern detective novel | 1 Comment

In detective crime fiction, there must be a crime, typically a murder; an investigative process, and a solution to the crime or satisfactory conclusion. We can thank Edgar Allan Poe for what is now the most popular type of fiction. The master of gothic and the macabre introduced Parisian crime solver Auguste Dupin in 1841 […]