The Man of Twists and Turns

Recently, in this (cyber)space, I started to explain why I’ve turned to historical fiction, after previously writing a book of nonfiction and my four Palestinian crime novels. I wrote that historical fiction casts today’s deepest issues in an unexpected (historical) context and can therefore make us see them anew. It’s also a dramatic way of [...]

Some authors exude the pleasure of reading and writing (and, believe me, when you meet them, you’d be surprised how many just don’t.) J. Sydney Jones is such a man, with a breadth of writing experience in different genres that’s deeply impressive and carries with it an obvious love of his craft. His Viennese Mystery [...]

Novelists aren’t journalists. Research for a novel isn’t the same as researching a journalistic article.
I’d have thought that was too obvious to need stating. But then I became a published novelist, and I realized that people thought the two things were rather the same.
I was a journalist for almost 20 years before my first novel [...]