Stephanie asked Mary Higgins Clark:

Do you have any advice or tips for those wishing to become authors, especially those focusing on suspense or mystery novels?

Mary Higgins Clark The advice would be to everyone who wants to write: start it.

But specifically, if you want to be a suspense writer, something I did that was extremely helpful may work for you. I wanted to see how Daphne Du Maurier was able to give the suspense to "Rebecca" that made that book a classic. I wrote the first paragraph and the last paragraph of every chapter and did a synopsis of what went in that chapter. It was a wonderful way to see how she built suspense in such a subtle manner.

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