What Courtrooms Can Teach Crime Novelists

Presented by: Anthony Franze | Charles Rosenberg | Nancy Allen | Ted Hertel

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 about courtrooms on the page.

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Inside the E-Book Market: What Publishers Really Think

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