Vampire Camp
For Michael Rowe, finding inspiration for his decidedly adult
vampire novel meant reaching back to the golden age of horror
Historical friction
Novelists who use real events and figures as grist for their fiction come up against some very real ethical issues
Becoming the story
Writing about her time as a hostage in Afghanistan may have been the hardest thing journalist Mellissa Fung has ever done
What’s in a new name?
Launches gone wild
What with fights, snowstorms, and no-shows, book events can be a rough business, writes Shaun Smith
Tricky questions of tone
Mine, mine, mine
The hardest part of writing a first book is letting go, Kenneth Whyte discovers
The eleventh hour
While writing a book about an ongoing war crimes trial, Michelle Shephard uncovered a last-minute bombshell
Izzy and I
A fascination with power (and a shared love of jazz) led Peter C. Newman to take on a media tycoon