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7 Character Lessons from a Real Life Heroine
by Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes This week on June 8 was Women’s Fiction Day, celebrating strong female protagonists. More and more stories these days are bringing us great female characters. In...
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Writing Spies: How To Bug a Room
by Piper Bayardof Bayard & Holmes The basic function of intelligence personnel (a.k.a. "spooks") is to collect information on people and organizations. One way of doing that is to plant "bugs."...
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Writing Spies: How to Find Bugs
By Piper Bayardof Bayard & Holmes Now that we know how to bug a room (see Writing Spies: Bugging a Room), it's important to look at the other side of the equation. How can our characters know if a...
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Writing Spies: A Window Into the Top Four Organizations
By Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes In spy and crime fiction, one of the most common mistakes that my writing partner and I see is confusion about which organization does what, to whom, and where....
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Writing Spies: Who and What is Listening, and Why?
by Piper Bayardof Bayard & Holmes I write with a partner who is a 47-yr veteran of Intelligence Community field operations. My friends know to unplug their Alexas and their Smart TVs when I’m in a...
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Writing Believable Driveway Crime: Carjacking & Kidnapping
by Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes For those of us who write espionage or crime novels, knowledge of crime is essential. My writing partner, Jay Holmes, is a 45+ year veteran of field intelligence...
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Parking Lot Crime: Writing About Burglaries and Robberies
By Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes Authors who write about crime need to understand crime. My writing partner, Jay Holmes, is a 45+ year veteran of field intelligence operations, and we often get...
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Writing Spies: Honeypots and the Honey Trap
by Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes My writing partner, Jay Holmes, is a veteran of the Cold War and every other war since, as well as a 45+ year member of the United States Intelligence Community....
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Writing About Recruitment for the Intelligence Community
by Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes Before our characters in the Intelligence Community can save the world, they have to be recruited. While we can accomplish this any number of ways in fiction,...
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Marketing, How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways!
By Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes I’ll say it straight up. Marketing is the bane of my writing existence. I can draft a book, withstand ruthless editing, rewrite the book half a dozen times or...
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