Significant crime happens in parking lots, particularly burglaries and robberies. Here's how authors can understand crime and write it believably.

Piper Bayard shows how to use a real-life hero/heroine to inform your fiction (plus 7 lessons for deepening the characterization)

Piper Bayard It’s a simple fact. Any electronic item that transmits a signal can be intercepted and/or hacked. That means cybersecurity is an issue for each of us; therefore, unless we are writing historical fiction, cybersecurity is a potential issue for each of our characters. Volumes can be written on cybersecurity issues, so rather than […]

Piper Bayardof Bayard & Holmes Everyone loves a good fight, and a good fight scene is arguably the heart of every thriller. But as NYT Bestseller James Rollins says, in fiction, never use the same killing method twice in the same book. As a result, fiction writers are always looking for a new twist on a […]

by Piper Bayard Sshh! I have a secret. I’ve never said it out loud, but I’m going to share it with you – because you need to know. I’m an author with two books out. Both books made the top ten of one bestseller list or another. I also post at over 60 websites nationwide […]