So you want to write a thriller. Not just any old thriller, but a pot-boiler, with twists and turns, a climactic ending and one worthy,

One fine day, out of the blue, one of my critics threw me a doozy. He asked me what appeared to be an innocuous question

  Let’s face it. Before you write a single word, you might already be dreaming of proudly informing everyone you know that you are a published writer.