STRANGERS SHE KNOWS BY CHRISTINA DODD. The Big Thrill Magazine. Dec. 2019 Edition
In a literary space where the business of agenting and publishing is increasingly siloed, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd has strayed away from the regular mold of genre fiction with a protean body of work ranging from suspense and thriller novels to romance, paranormal, and historical fiction.
Her latest novel, STRANGERS SHE KNOWS (which is the third of her Cape Charade thriller series) revolves around Kellen Adams, an army veteran and a once-battered wife who must now face a killer playing a game where only one person can make it alive… READ MORE.
HIGH STAKES BY JOHN DOBBYN. The Big Thrill Magazine.
By Nish Amarnath. November 2019.
The legal thriller genre has transcended the contours of Mary Higgins Clark’s thrill killings and John Grisham’s courtroom drama to combine history, adventure, fantasy, and Gothicism in ways that realistically represent the essence of human conflict.
Award-winning mystery writer and former trial attorney John Dobbyn, who is a professor of law at Villanova Law School, has been instrumental in expanding this genre to uncharted terrains that redefine truth and justice.
Dobbyn’s latest nail-biter, HIGH STAKES, connects a pair of 21st century attorneys with… READ MORE.
ECHO OF THE EXILED. Del Sol Review - The Literary Arts Magazine.
By Nish Amarnath. September 2019
An outcry against terrorism and related social indoctrination.
STRANGER IN BLACK: THE JOURNEY FROM ESCAPIST TO HARPERCOLLINS AUTHOR.
The Thrill Begins Magazine.
By Nish Amarnath. September 2019
A tall woman in a long black coat and a black hat rested the ferrule of her umbrella on what looked like a grey London street. She stood in front of a house with a window revealing a bookshelf within, presumably hers. She was regarded as a writer. It seemed that this stranger was me – or who I hoped to become. That vision appeared one afternoon when I was a child. At the time, I was adrift in an oasis of trauma, tragedy and culture shock upon relocating from Europe to India. And that’s how it began. READ MORE.
THE PRESERVE BY STEVE ANDERSON. The Big Thrill Magazine
By Nish Amarnath. September 2019.
The Second World War and its aftermath continue to epitomize the evils of dehumanization, all the way from mass genocide and medical experiments on prisoners of war across Nazi-occupied European territories to Japan’s bombing of Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor and the US’s retaliation with bomb-fueled explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Against this backdrop, a controversy that remains a mystery is that of the gold plundered from southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces who enlisted Yakuza gangsters to run transnational organized crime syndicates. The loot, often referred to as “Yamashita’s gold,”… READ MORE.
HER DAUGHTER’S MOTHER: DANIELA PETROVA. The Big Thrill Magazine.
By Nish Amarnath. July 2019.
Despite a proliferation of fertility clinics and agencies that ensure anonymity for egg donors, legal systems are often ill-equipped to deal with personal, emotional, and spiritual conflicts that can arise in various permutations and combinations through the process.
In her debut novel, HER DAUGHTER’S MOTHER, accomplished New York City-based writer Daniela Petrova deftly weaves the sensitivities of psychological conflicts embedded in this reality into an intriguing web of domestic suspense. READ MORE.
UP CLOSE: CHARLES SALZBERG - SEEKING INSIGHTS FROM THE UNIVERSE. The Big Thrill Magazine.
By Nish Amarnath. June 2019
What inspired the mystery revolving around a missing psychic in Charles Salzberg's SWANN’S DOWN? He chats with Nish Amarnath in the June issue of The Big Thrill [via International Thriller Writers].
The U.S. psychic services industry churns out roughly $2 billion in annual revenue amid scams where psychics have claimed that their clients are hexed and/or insisted on the possibility of reuniting with a loved one. Chasing such charlatans is not high on the priority list of mainstream detectives—although a few lone private eyes, like retired NYC cop Bob Nygaard, have helped wealthier clients recover their fortunes from crooks. In his latest oeuvre, SWANN’S DOWN, celebrated crime novelist and journalist and Charles Salzberg has skillfully woven the pressing reality of psychic chicanery into…READ MORE.
5 WORST TIPS ON HOW TO FIND A LITERARY AGENT.
Algonkian NYC. Writer’s Edge New York.
By Nish Amarnath. May 2019
The business of fiction writing is very instinctual. Against that backdrop, there is no definitive formula for success in finding a literary agent.
Authors have been seeking my advice on how they can land a literary agent. At this point, many are desperate for a yes from an agent. I feel their pain. More than five years ago, I was in that oblivion too. It’s easy to get distracted and/or feel disoriented by all the noise out there on what to do and what not to do. But, here are five positively worst bits of advice authors have been getting on how to ink that deal. READ MORE.
FINDING SUCCESS AS A NOVELIST. Algonkian NYC - Writer’s Edge, New York.
By Nish Amarnath. April 2019
You’re a splendid writer. And you have a breakout novel at the ready. But, these are just half of the ingredients for perfecting your recipe and nailing that book deal. So, where’s that other half? What do you think that other half might be? Take a guess before reading any further.
Well…it’s…READ MORE.
The Fight of a Rookie BBC Journalist.
MEDIUM. FEB. 20, 2018
In early 2006, I stumbled upon an incident of concern involving a differently abled twenty-two-year-old woman. I delved into an investigation of my own for a newspaper story at the time. The incident I speak of is one of many that point to an excessive, and often detrimental, emphasis on family honour as the nucleus of a moral compass that rests solely on women, regardless of their... READ MORE.