Ellery Queen Mysteries were created by two American cousins who used Ellery Queen as both their pseudonym as well as a name for their fictional character...

Authors sometimes use fictional history as a writing strategy These are meant for people to think that the events written are real...

Fictional histories are products of the imagination yet still based on real past events The most famous are Dan Brown’s the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons...

Travel books are extremely diverse Some are barely identifiable as travel writing...

Defining your fictional characters' voices is important What is equally vital, though, is grasping your characters' humanity, the core of their fictional soul...