The case of the death of abortion rights
At Crime Reads, author Amy Littlefield shares how she used the mystery genre’s structure to write her new book, Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights. “The book told the story of the wider death of a constitutional right, but I framed each section around a real woman who had died from anti-abortion policies. Then I channeled my favorite Christie sleuth, the unassuming old lady Miss Marple, to try to listen my way to an understanding of the behind-the-scenes figures who played a quiet role in those deaths.”
If you set a PI series in Miami, there better be Latinos
At TODAY.com, Latina actresses Bevin Bru and Jaina Lee Ortiz had a fun conversation about the new PI adaptation series they star in, R.J. Decker. “You’re in Miami, you’re bound to be inundated with Latino culture, pastelitos, ropa vieja, lo que sea.” YUM!
Viola Davis wrote a thriller
James Patterson loves co-authoring thriller books with public figures, like Run, Rose, Run with Dolly Parton. Now Viola Davis has entered the thriller writing arena with the legal thriller Judge Stone. “When I was nine. I said, ‘I’m going to be a writer.’ It sort of was mixing with the acting, but the acting was more of a far-fetched dream, whereas writing was more immediate for me, because I could put pen to paper anytime I wanted to, and I would. Of course, everything I wrote was dystopian and [had] murder and people dying and everything was always dramatic, but I always felt like I had control over the pen.” Variety has more on how the thriller came to be and more, including her meme-worthy moment at the Actor Awards.
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