Margaret Lucke – författare

This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition—original tales with a theatrical bent! Included are:

Preface, by Ellen HartThe Rock Star, by Frances AylorPerfectly Awry, by Anne Louise BannonThe Ghost in Balcony B, by Michele Bazan ReedDrama-Rama Flip Flop, by Cindy BrownIt’s Not O.K. Corral, by M. E. BrowningMary-Alice Imagines Her Life as a Movie, by Karen CantwellThe Ghost of Hamnet, by R. M. ChastletonWhen the Wind is Southerly, by Leone CiporinRaising Cain, by Carla CoupeDeath of Another Hero, by Susan DalyThe Stars Are Fire, by Phillip DePoyDeath Plays the Palace, by Margaret DumasThe Homicidal Understudy, by Elizabeth ElwoodNo Final Act, by Daryl Wood GerberDeus Ex Machina, by B. J. GrafThe Nine Deaths in Hamlet?, by A. P. JamisonHeat Wave, by Maureen JenningsThus With a Kiss, by Margaret LuckeSuch Tricks As These, by Jaquelyn Lyman-ThomasFinal Curtain, by Sharon LynnThe Mask, by Cheryl MarceauThe Ultimate Tie-Breaker, by Deborah MaxeyTrue Crime, by Adam MeyerA Star Goes Dark, by Raquel V. ReyesNot Your Lolita, by Merrilee RobsonA Death in Shubert Alley, by Lee SauerDance on Fire, by Shawn Reilly SimmonsMissed Cue, by Lynn SlaughterYou Know How Actresses Are, by C. M. SurrisiFive Words, by Elaine TogneriAsk Fred the Usher, by Arthur VidroDeath Takes a Bow, by Mo WalshDeal With the Devil, by James Lincoln WarrenMethod for Murder, by Carol L. Wright