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The Thriller Pitch Podcast is the director’s cut of the thriller book world. Here, we answer what makes a great thriller tick and what it really takes to write one.On this show, bestselling, award-winning, and emerging thriller authors share the craft, psychology, and…
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Spoiler Episode | The Mentor with Angela Douglas (opens the original)
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This is the spoiler discussion for The Mentor with Angela Douglas. If you haven't read the book or heard the full conversation yet, stop here, this episode gives away the ending. Angela goes past the pitch: the other endings she wrote before landing on the one in the book, including a documentary-style version she cut for being too explanatory, and the red herrings she planted for Natalie and a handful of other suspects along the way. She also talks about a reader theory she never planted on pur
She Wrote a Thriller About Every Writer's Worst Nightmare: A Stolen Story | The Mentor with Angela Douglas (opens the original)
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Angela Douglas asked herself a question before she'd published a single book: what's the worst thing that could happen to a writer? She landed on an answer while working through lockdown on her still-unpublished first novel: having one of your stories stolen. That became the premise for The Mentor, a psychological thriller about Karla, an author accused of basing her breakout book on a former student's real life. Angela likes writing characters readers won't warm to right away, and Karla is one
Spoiler Episode | Another Try with Gene Koon (opens the original)
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This is the spoiler discussion for Another Try with Gene Koon. If you haven't read the book or heard Tuesday's full conversation yet, stop here, this episode gives away the ending. Gene goes past the pitch: whether the story could have ended a different way, the real winery research trip behind one of the book's key scenes, and the theme about political accountability and mass violence he wove in without turning the book preachy. He also previews what's coming in the next two Garris Kelly books,
14 Years in War Crimes Courtrooms Before Writing His Spy Thriller | Another Try with Gene Koon (opens the original)
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Gene Koon spent 14 years as a UN video director with no plan to write a novel. His best material wasn't research he went looking for, it was testimony he sat through incidentally, sitting in on the Yugoslavian war crimes trials where intelligence operatives sometimes testified in closed session. The more he listened, the more he suspected these people could make compelling characters for a book, so he filed the idea away. Years later, that idea became the starting point for Another Try. From the
Spoiler Episode | The House That Held Her with Ellis Hart (opens the original)
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This is the spoiler continuation of the Ellis Hart episode on The House That Held Her. If you haven't read the book or heard the main episode, stop here. Mark and Ellis get into the ending, the skulls, and what almost made it into the book instead. Ellis Hart The House That Held Her: https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Held-Her-Keeping/dp/B0F24D62JS Follow Ellis Hart online: https://www.instagram.com/ellis_hart_author/ Want to be part of the conversation? Join the Patreon and ask your questions fo
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