Bayard & Holmes share the three things that cannot be silenced when a weapon is fired and offer tips on how to make scenes with weapons believable for readers.

Firearms often show up in fiction, and Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes clear up the errors authors tend to make in describing them.

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 Bayard of Bayard & Holmes The Americans, a show about undercover Soviet agents posing as Americans in the DC area during the Cold War, teaches writers solid lessons in both what it gets wrong, and what it gets right. Since I write espionage nonfiction and fiction and partner with a senior member of the […]

Piper Bayard First, I will speak as a writer . . . I know I’m not alone when I say I’ve done it. I started out thinking, “I’ll just pop onto Facebook for a few minutes before I hit the WIP.” Then one post leads to another, which leads to an article, which leads to […]