Avery Aames, Denise Osborne, Jennie Bentley, Juliet Blackwell, and Mary Jane Maffini discuss their devotion to craft and creativity. They use the idea of “escaping the Dragon House” as a metaphor for reorganizing creative space and refreshing the writing process.
What Courtrooms Can Teach Crime Novelists
Lawyers turned crime writers discuss how real courtroom experience shapes their fiction. This session explores what drew them from practicing law to storytelling, how legal procedure and criminal psychology inform their plots, and what writers get right and wrong...




