The First Two Pages

Every Tuesday, a mystery writer explains how he or she faced the challenges of those brutally difficult–and vitally important–first two pages.

Farm Fresh and Fatal

Judy Hogan Monday Morning, April 1, 2002. A fight broke out during the second market, but the first day of…

Art Taylor When I first wrote “Rearview Mirror,” the opening story in my novel in stories On the Road with…

B.K. Stevens We all know we’re not supposed to do it. But I did it anyway. Almost all Creative Writing…

Tammy Kaehler The opening lines of my books tend to come to me well in advance of writing the rest…