Author, actor, director, educator, podcaster, and publisher Lynn C. Miller tells readers about her new story collection, The Lost Archive. Not only are the stories within smart and engaging, but our interview includes a discussion of the art and craft of short story writing itself. Lynn’s insights into setting and identity, short story ending trends, and writing short pieces in the midst of longer works are all invaluable and fun to read. Read the full interview.
Craft of Writing
Writing a Mystery / The Mystery of Writing: an interview
Francesca Christian with On the Horizon youtube series interviewed Lynn C. Miller about mystery writing, including common plot devices to hook your reader, examples in the genre worthy of study, as well as new trends.
Listen to a discussion of The Unmasking on KTAL 101.5
Lynn C. Miller joined KTAL radio’s Lynn Moorer to discuss her mystery novel, The Unmasking, a story of university politics, intrigue, dark comedy, and melodrama featuring a trio of friends and colleagues who, after a college dean dies in a suspicious accident, try to puzzle out who is behind his death.
Q&A with Lynn C. Miller, author of The Unmasking
The Unmasking by Lynn C. Miller
ISBN 978-0-8263-6171-4 | $19.95 paper | 246 pp., 6 × 9 | Oct 2020
You’ve described this novel as a “twist on the locked-room mystery.” What appealed to you About that type of mystery, and how did you reimagine it for The Unmasking?
Many mysteries are set in isolated places where all the characters––including the suspects and the perpetrator(s)––are stuck together. As in the Gothic novel, there’s only one way in and one way out. In the locked-room mystery, someone is killed inside a room, and it isn’t apparent how the murderer got in, did the deed, and exited. Agatha Christie was a master of this kind of claustrophobic setting, which has always intrigued me as a novelist as the stakes steadily rise.
[Read more…] about Q&A with Lynn C. Miller, author of The UnmaskingCelebrating Women Writers
“Celebrating Women Writers,” a reading and discussion by Albuquerque-area writers Lynn C. Miller, Hilda Raz, and Phyllis Skoy at the Corrales Library, 84 W La Entrada Rd, Corrales, NM 87048, on Thursday, March 13, at 6 pm. During this free event, the three writers read from their work and talked about women writers who inspired them.
Bosque Press Retreat, January 11 and February 22, 2019
Hilda Raz, Bosque Press Poetry Editor, and I are leading a two day retreat, Digging Deeper, Then Flowering, Saturday, January 11, 2020, and Saturday, February 22, 2020 (the retreat is fully subscribed).