Amy Gentry

May 13, 2024 | crimereads.com | Andromeda Romano-Lax |Jennifer Hillier |Amy Gentry

Mothers, it’s all your fault. But you knew that, right? Whether you:–Let your little boy wander away in a crowded shopping area, never to be seen again–Let your toddler or tween daughter get taken from your own house–Encouraged your adult daughter to travel abroad and into the arms of dangerous strangers. What were you thinking? Welcome to a specific subgenre of psychological suspense novel, the one that explores parents’ fears—let’s be honest, mothers’ fears—about what might happen to our children.

Oct 26, 2023 | crimereads.com | Amy Gentry

What makes a spooky novella so satisfying? You might as well ask why a raven is like a writing desk. (The answer, of course, is that all three things remind me of my own mortality.)All riddles aside, the novella is, at best, a slippery beast. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines it as a story that is anywhere from 70 pages to 160 pages long, but such cut-offs are doomed to be arbitrary—not just page layout and font size, but style and scope can contribute to the feeling.

Sep 15, 2023 | amygentry.substack.com | Amy Gentry

How do I create time and space (and ongoing motivation!) to write for *no pay or promise of publication* when I also have to work full-time to support my family? How do I keep having fun without external recognition or reward? Sometimes friends or [my spouse] will still ask me essentially what I want to be when I grow up, and I still say: writer. But I have enjoyed writing less in recent years, where I feel I give it *so much.* I sometimes feel it keeps taking but doesn’t always give back.