Come here and browse through useful resources for writers (do suggest other resources to be posted here), and if you are running a page on writing or literature - please send in a link for your website.
This cult superstar science fiction writer has created extremely useful (and free!) software for all writers. The yWriter software is an amazingly good word processor for novel writing, and this fantastic person has also designed other handy things like submission trackers and a book database software (to organize your personal library). The website also has useful articles and links for authors.
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html?yWriter5
Friendly website by a crime writer who is writing a series of novels set in Bangkok. Provides a sympathetic guide – freely downloadable online – on how to get to the end of your novel (that is, the novel you’re trying to write, not the one you’re trying to read), plus suggestions on useful reading matter.
http://www.timothyhallinan.com
I've discovered that all the best writers have one thing in common - namely websites and blogs for easy access to their hidden dimensions. The without doubt greatest writer of all time, Amitav Ghosh, has a Goan-made very potent website:
http://www.amitavghosh.com/
Here's the website of the great literary showman Amitava Kumar:
http://www.amitavakumar.com/
Blog by book critic Sudarshan Purohit who also translates Hindi pulp fiction into English:
http://connectionmachine.blogspot.com
The best new thriller writer on the scene, Eshwar Sundaresan:
http://eshwarsundaresan.com/
The ace cyber prophet Jai Arjun Singh's famous original blog:
http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/
This features the undiluted thoughts of Manjula Padmanabhan:
http://www.marginalien.blogspot.com/
The pundit of pundits Chandrahas Choudhury explains the nitty and the gritty of literature:
http://middlestage.blogspot.com/
The scholarly star Ramachandra Guha's online edition provides you with your historical nourishment here:
http://ramachandraguha.in/
Sci-fi and such from Rimi B. Chatterjee:
http://rimibchatterjee.net/livelikeaflame/
And last but not least the superhero of genre fiction, the venerable Samit Basu himself:
http://samitbasu.com/
Now then for something completely different. On this website by writer Torkel Wächter you can see his next novel take shape – follow his research and possibly even contribute with missing bits and pieces.
http://www.32postkarten.com/index.html
Not exactly a ”Learn how to write Detective Novels”-handbook, but my published writings on Crime Fiction may serve as an inspiration – at least I try to come out of the closet here and suggest what I (as a writer and reviewer) think works, and what doesn’t work (according to me). These things are subjective and disputable, but on the other hand we must never forget that our readers are subjective and argumentative too.
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 17, 2009: "Cornell Woolrich, father of noir"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 28, 2009: "James Ellroy and his Demons"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 28, 2009: "Martin Cruz Smith and the Use of Location"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 2, 2009: "The perils of posthumous sequels"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 30, 2009: "Truman Capote meets Bollywood in true crime magazine Crime & Detective" (and some blog responses to this column: http://engageentertainenlighten.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-youre-thinking-of-writing-feature.html & http://immanuelscant.wordpress.com/)
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 27, 2009: "How to play around with history successfully in a crime novel"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 25, 2009: "By now, if you've read all of the above, you might wonder How To Write A Crime Novel"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 29, 2009: "An insider-view of the Locked Room Mystery genre"
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 26, 2009: "Sherlock Holmes never came to India - or did he?"
- Lounge on Saturday, October 24, 2009: FEATURE "Land of the Melancholic Cops", on Swedish crime fiction & interview with the best-selling Henning Mankell. As the printed version of the feature is abridged, you will find the original version here including some blurry snaps: Land of the Melancholic Cops and Interview with Henning Mankell, "Crime fiction is the mirror" and here's the somewhat shorter published story: Start page and it continues here page two and here page three and ends with the abridged Mankell interview
- The ABC of Bad Crime Novelists printed in Deccan Herald's Sunday review section (December 6, 2009)
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 12, 2009: Mystery Cities of India
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 26, 2009: The day I saw the future of Detective Fiction, Page 2, Page 3
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 9, 2010: Scandinavian detectives plotting in India
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 6, 2010: How to be a poetic detective
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 6, 2010: The mystery of mysteries
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 27, 2010: The three best detective stories
- Deccan Herald on Sunday, March 28, 2010: Rediscoveries in the world of Indian pulp crime fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 1, 2010: A school for crime writers?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 22, 2010: RE-birth of a genre - springtime for Indian crime & detective fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 26, 2010: Walking in a hero's footsteps - guided detective tours
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 3, 2010: When reality and fiction merges - how close is too close?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 31, 2010: How to write a masterpiece of crime fiction
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 28, 2010: Supernatural detection, does it really work?
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, October 9, 2010: Crime and detective fiction in Australia
- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 4, 2010: The cold war is hot again
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- The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 18, 2010: Almost deadly crime writing from Japan
- Feature story for Open Magazine, January 17, 2011: A guide to crime fiction for dummies
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 19, 2011: A walk-in encyclopedia of real-life crime-fighting
Deccan Herald Sunday Review: The horrors of terror
The must read crime novel list
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 2, 2011: The therapeutical uses of crime fiction
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 30, 2011: The facts about facts in crime fiction
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 24, 2011: The best crooks in the world of fiction
The Caravan, October 2011: How Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 2, 2011: Shopping for Detective Novels in South India
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 20, 2011: The generation gap in Crime Fiction
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 2, 2011: Shopping for Detective Novels in South India
The Caravan, October 2011: How Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 10, 2012: How much violence is too much?
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 26, 2012: The Curse of the East
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 8, 2012: The Indian Crime Novel
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 22, 2012: Hans Koppel, the New Face of Swedish Crime Fiction
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, October 27, 2012: The Crime fictions of China
The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 23, 2013: Biographer of the Criminal Minds
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