THE DANGERS OF RESEARCH: When Story and Reality Clash.

By Robin BurcellWay back when, I decided to switch over from straight police procedurals to international intrigue. There was a reason for this. I’d never been anywhere but the U.S., and having a San Francisco cop, Kate Gillespie, (EVERY MOVE SHE MAKES), wasn’t going to get me to Europe. Okay,...

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Writing History, Character Archetypes and Kung Fu

Quote by Lao Tzuby Jamie FrevelettiAugust's last post in which she confesses a love for old 60's television shows about spies prompted me to confess my own latest favorite.A little background first, as I mentioned in my last post about research shattering myths, I'm currently writing a...

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Foreign Settings: Been there…or not?

...Submitted by Karna Small BodmanWe Rogues have been writing about the use of foreign settings in our thrillers, so the question is: must we have traveled there...or is doing great research enough to "transport" the reader to just the right location? When the updated version of my international...

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Language Spy by August Thomas

A dark confession: though I was born in the ‘90s, I have an awful weakness for ‘60s TV spy shows.  I got hooked on Get Smart, devoured The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  and – most recently – started zooming my way through the original Mission Impossible TV series.  Settle in for a few...

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AUGUST IN AUGUST

by K.J. HoweAugust Thomas, new Rogue WomanIt's August, and the Rogues are very excited and proud to welcome a new member to the crew--August Thomas!  August has taken the publishing world by storm with her debut thriller, THE LIARS' CANDLE, the story of summer intern Penny Kessler...

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Trains, planes, cars, and motorcycles

S. Lee Manning: Gayle Lynds’ excellent quiz on her last post made me think about spies and transportation. In international thrillers, spies travel – a lot. They have to get from one country to another. Once there, they use transportation to do surveillance – to ditch tails – to meet up with...

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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A SPY?

by Gayle Lynds:  Would you mind spending a few months living in a mud hut — or perhaps the nightly ritual of putting on formal clothes to attend an embassy party with great booze and music in a foreign capitol?How's your physical conditioning, your eyesight, your temperament?  Maybe...

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