On Sunday, we’ll do a radically different novel, but first let’s wrap up Reacher: The Annotation Project: Killing Floor Why Do They Onl...

A lot of you have been holding your nose as I’ve stunk up the place these last two weeks with an examination of Lee Child’s first Jack Rea...

The hardest part of thriller writing is getting your hero into and out of trouble in compelling and believable ways. The easiest way to g...

We mentioned last time that readers of Lee Child’s books admire Jack Reacher’s eyes, wishing we could see the world the way he sees it (al...

Lee Child insists that he doesn’t research, doesn’t outline, and doesn’t revise . He just sits down and writes, and the most he ever dele...

When I work with authors, one of their greatest frustrations is that potential agents and publishers, and even some contests, only want t...

Let’s do our first Annotation Project in a while. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books are comically macho, but they’re big fun and massive bes...