Moderator John Billheimer asks a panel of female crime authors questions about their stories, writing process, and research. Each panelist has a background in law or crime, which influences the topics they write about.
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Panelists discuss how they research for their novels.
Adding stress, recognizing when the story is stalled, personal and professional conflicts, and what a character’s decision-making process teaches readers about them.
Panelists discuss the different kinds of conflicts and how to balance them, writing about places that pull the reader in as much as the conflict while avoiding cliches and allowing the reader to see what's coming next before the characters do.