This week on WritersNewsWeekly.com Karen Bence writes about adding paranormal elements to mystery fiction.
"At a recent author event, I was asked what possessed me to include “ghosts” in my “mystery” novel. The gentleman who asked the question wrote murder mysteries, but veered away from ever using paranormal elements in his novels. He seemed truly dumbfounded as to why I would take a perfectly mainstream genre and muck it up with supernatural elements. What was perplexing to him was perfectly clear to me—using “ghosts” or any other kind of paranormal characters, offers authors incredible freedom in expanding the story in ways that would be impossible by only using “flesh and blood” human characters. Of course they can create a chilling tension, but more importantly, these otherworldly creatures lend depth and breadth to a story."
You can read Karen's full article here
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