Martin's Writing Blog
About Writing
Mystery, Thriller, or Mystery Thriller?
How Thrillers Get to Those Exciting Climaxes
POV: First Person or Third Person?
When Fact Is Stranger than Fiction
A New Year and the Year Just Passed
Your Cover Blurb - Selling, Not Telling Your Book
Your Logline - The Hardest Sentence You'll Ever Write
What's In Your Character's Background?
How Shakespeare Influences Our Everyday Writing
The True Facts Behind the Plot of The Butcher's Bill
Forget 1984. This Is the Book Americans Should Read
Military Law Enforcement for Crime Writers
Fascism in America in Fact and Fiction
Everything Old is New Again—Especially in Hollywood
Flash Fiction: When Less Is More
Two Software Programs to Help Your Writing
Tweak MS Word to Work for You.
The Other Side of Book Reviews: How Writing Reviews Can Improve and Promote Your Books
…ever wondered where fact and fiction merge in a novel?… Author Martin Roy Hill knows…
A New Planet, Sci-Fi, and Human History
Violence 101: A Primer for Writers
Are We Over-Writing Our Stories?
Put an OOPART in Your Next Sci-Fi Plot
Organizing Your Review and Publicity Campaign
What's In a Name? Or a Book Title?
What's on Your Writer's Bookshelf?
When a Captain Isn't a Captain: Military Ranks for Writers
Book Reviews
Review: Black Heart - Arrival: A Page Turner to Keep You Up at Night
Review: Metropolis: A Beginning and an End for Bernie Gunther
Review: Block's 'Tombstones:' A Walk Among Genius
Review: Vita Aeterna - A Powerful Warning of a Future to Come
Review: Moonraker - More Proof Hollywood Ruined James Bond
Review: All that Glitters In Hollywood Isn't Gold
Review: Angels With Dirty Faces...and Guns
Review: Jekyll Revelation - Slow Start but Compelling Read
Review:McKinty's Rain Dogs: Love Lost. Death. New Life
Review: A Lunar Commentary on Earthbound Men
Review: Testament - Hard to Read, but Worth Reading
Review: A Living Character in Live and Let Die
Review: Manchurian Candidate - 50-Year-Old Novel With a Warning for Today
Review: Murder In a Land Where Life Is Cheap
Review: Black Heart a Story of Belief and Redemption
Review: Byzantine Intrigue and Betrayal in The First Wave
Review: Policing the Covert World in Bob Mayer's The Cellar
Review: Black's Beach Shuffle - A Touch of Humor and Noir
Review: 7th Plague Not Scary but Satisfying
Review: A Search for Peace Extremely Denied
Review: Shadow Cartel - Death Cults and Drug Cartels
Review: Casino Royale - The Real Bond, James Bond.
Review: First Assassin - Gone With the Wind Meets Day of the Jackal
Review: Travis McGee - A Classic Returns
Review: Billy Boyle Mixes Noir Mystery with War Novel
Review: I, Judas Is a Thinking Man's Adventure
Review: A Tale of the Stress of Wartime Command
Review: Character-Driven Plot in Higgins' To Catch a King
Review: Einstein Prophesy Offers Best of Archeology and Horror Genres
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