Andromeda Romano-Lax

2 months ago | lizaltermanwriter.substack.com | Liz Alterman |Andrea Bartz |Jessica Payne |Andromeda Romano-Lax

Hi Everyone! Happy spring! Despite the much nicer weather and plentiful daylight in New Jersey, I’ve been thinking about darkness—specifically, the menacing characters and sinister plots thriller writers devise. It’s all well and good when these remain in our heads, but what happens when friends and family read our darkest thoughts on the page?

May 28, 2024 | mindfullibrarian.substack.com | Andromeda Romano-Lax

Hello readers! Welcome to another edition of my series that features my favorite kind of online writers ~ those who write about BOOKS! Just like my series What Writers Read, this series introduces you to writers and their favorite books. I do hope you enjoy it!I always call myself an eclectic reader, but one area I know I don’t read enough in is suspense fiction. I mean, I read some in the genre, but it’s definitely a type of story I know I need to explore more.

May 20, 2024 | booksbywomen.org | Andromeda Romano-Lax

Three mistakes I made—and you don’t have to—when writing a first mystery or suspense novelBy Andromeda Romano-LaxRecently, my first suspense novel, The Deepest Lake, was published by Soho Crime. It’s my sixth novel and a departure from my previous genres of historical fiction and literary fiction. Many people ask me why I made the leap.

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.

May 9, 2024 | zip06.com | Andromeda Romano-Lax

The Deepest Lake by Andromeda Romano-Lax When Rose’s adult daughter drowns while attending a writer’s workshop in Central America and her ex-husband is unable to get satisfactory answers, Rose takes the mission on herself. Posing as a student of the workshop, Rose is determined to find out how her daughter, deathly afraid of water, could drown in the middle of that lake. Ginger, Breakwater Books, Guilford