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In honor of this month's Women's History Month, we've put together a new documentary style mash-up video celebrating Women's Mystery Month.  Bestselling authors including Anne Perry, Susan Isaacs, Ruth Rendell and more share their thoughts on writing mystery and suspense from a woman's point of view.   Enjoy!

According to the Midcontinent Public Library and Based on the Book, more than 1,200 books, novels, short stories, and plays have been made into English language feature films—and that's just since 1980! In fact, all but two of this year's Academy Award Best Picture nominees are based on books including The Descendants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Moneyball, and War Horse.  

Of course it's no secret that Hollywood producers and bestselling authors don't always see eye-to-eye when it comes to writing the all-important screenplay adaptation; but with patience, respect, and determination, success—and maybe ...

If you're reading this, it stands to reason you love a good mystery.  In fact, you may even be a mystery writer. . . in which case, you'll surely want to read more about the field trip we took earlier this week to the newly founded Crime Fiction Academy situated in the Center for Fiction in New York City's Mercantile Library.

[What's that?  Oh. You were looking for the Links We Like segment?  Right.  Well, that posts on Fridays—come back tomorrow.  But, wait. . . ! Now that you're here, why not stick around, have a read, and share ...

Open Road Media publishes hundreds of titles from dozens of the world’s bestselling crime and mystery writers.  Our recently announced publishing partnership with Otto Penzler’s MysteriousPress.com ensures more thrills and chills coming your way!

Open Road Media Crime Masters

Peter Blauner, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author best known for his full immersion style of research and gritty urban novels.

A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, Lawrence Block is an internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author.

Stephen Coonts is a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight thriller, suspense, and nonfiction ...

Editors note: Bestselling authors speak out on behalf of Banned Books Week, September 24-October 1, by sharing their favorite banned books and more.

Loren D. Estleman is the award-winning author of more than sixty-five novels, including mysteries and westerns.  His most enduring character, Amos Walker, has been featured in twenty novels and his adventure novel, The High Rocks was nominated for a National Book Award.  Before “sounding off” on which banned books surprised him the most, Estleman thanked us for “sending the latest list of The Damned”.

I’m never surprised by any of the choices, however innocuous some ...

Open Road Media announces the ebook publication of four novels from the author the New York Times calls “a witty, wry observer of the contemporary scene,” Susan Isaacs. 

Beginning with her classic first novel, Compromising Positions, in which a Long Island housewife with too much time on her hands investigates the murder of a local dentist, Isaacs has received rave reviews and is internationally recognized for her “clever,” “feisty,” “funny,” and “true-to-life” writing. Now readers can add some extra sizzle to their summer reading with Open Road Media’s ebook editions of Isaacs’s Compromising Positions, Long Time No See...