Making Story: Twenty-One Writers on How They Plot

Twenty-one crime writers join together to spill the dirty little secrets of how they plot their books. (Writers of any kind of fiction will find the book useful.)The writers who tell all in the book have, among them, written more than 100 novels and won virtually every prize in crime fiction. Each writer’s essay is followed by an excerpt from a recent book so readers can go straight from the process to the product. At the end of the book is a round-table discussion in which most of the writers weigh in on questions that were asked by the book’s beta readers.