 For Authors: April 21, 2021 Issue [#10721] |
This week: Crime Fiction from My Perspective Edited by: Vivian  
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Whew, what a week, and this month will become even busier as I prepare for my first virtual writing conference. I will be speaking at the OWFI (Oklahoma Writers' Federation Inc) Bridge the Epic Gap 2021 conference April 30. I will also take pitches for 4RV Publishing. All thanks to Zoom. I hope some W.Com friends join me. If interested, information can be found at owfi.org.
I love reading mysteries. I write mysteries. I am often asked to judge mystery entries for writing competitions. So, I will share some thoughts about a mystery sub-genre, Crime Fiction.
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Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction, according to most authorities, is fiction which deals with, of all things, crime. Crime supposedly means detective, solving of crimes, police procedure plots, etc. It is a sub-genre to the mystery genre.
According to Jordan Dane, mistress of thrillers, the term “Crime Fiction” is being used as an umbrella for all mystery, suspense, and thriller works. Let’s briefly examine those genres and sub-genres and see how they can be considered “crime fiction.”
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_fiction), Crime Fiction and Mystery Fiction are also synonymous, meaning the different genres and sub-genres dealing with detective, crime, mystery, and anything dealing with solving a crime puzzle.
Since suspense is a major component of any mystery, no matter what the genre or sub-genre, then suspense fiction can be seen to be part of Crime Fiction. According to Writer’s Digest, July 10, 2008, the nine tricks to writing suspense tie to the needs for good mystery or thriller fiction – crime fiction. In fact the English name the sub-genre we call suspense as thrillers. All tie together.
Brian Garfield on International Thriller Writers, 1994, states that novels of suspense (thrillers) contain elements of mystery, romance, and adventure.
I appeared on a panel with Jordan Dane and Merline Lovelace as we discussed Crime Fiction (mystery, suspense, thriller) at the Heartland New Day BookFest several years ago. Both authors are delightful authors and people. All the people in the room (the largest attended session at the festival) enjoyed themselves. I recommend if you ever have a chance to hear either of them, take it. Of course, Merline has retired from writing (a great loss to the writing world), and Jordan isn't as active as she once was, but their books can still be found.
Any way, all this time I’ve been writing Crime Fiction and didn’t know.
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It is a featured issue indeed. Suspense is the basic of the story. Indeed something should retain the reader in the story so that he want to know more and to read more.
Yes, suspense is a part of most writing.
DarTaz 
Hi,
I just published a book Career Menu with ingredients: Secrets from the Job Man geared to high school students, a reference book. Now that it's published I wonder how I can make it available to them? Any ideas?
No, I'm sorry, but I don't have any ideas. Perhaps, you could contact local high schools and get their opinions.
Good writing until next time.
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