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Join DP Lyle for a fun chat with Retired Detective and Story Consultant Adam Richardson. Adam Richardson spent seventeen of his twenty-eight years in law enforcement as a detective in California, including assignments to state and federal task forces. He has been helping screenwriters, fiction authors, TV shows, and film productions with the cop stuff in their stories since 2015. Join his online community, Writer’s Detective Bureau. "A world-wide membership of crime-fiction

I’ve been writing professionally for nearly four decades. I watch for research that confirms the benefits. There’s evidence that expressing yourself in writing can improve your outlook, enhance momentum, increase self-awareness, strengthen memory, and just plain bring you joy. It can even reduce symptoms of illness and expand your social reach. Here are five tips for using writing for positive benefit: Exploit the effort of revision for personal awareness. One study had coll

Join Host DP Lyle, MD for a clever question from a crime writer and a discussion of this fascinating neurological syndrome. " What Drugs Might Cause Side Effects in My Character With Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?" 📺 WATCH: Criminal Mischief on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Q: I have a question about Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) My character is in his mid-30s. From what I've gathered from reading this syndrome, i

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with bestselling author Kaira Rouda . 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Join us for a class taught by Kaira Rouda! Unreliable Narrators and Twisted Truths: Creating Characters Readers Love to Hate Tuesday, June 16 at 4pm PT / 7pm EST Kaira Rouda is an award–winning USA TODAY and A

DP Lyle was featured on The Open Mic with host Rich Ehisen. Episode Description: "My guest today is an multi-award-winning author, lecturer and writing instructor who has more than two dozen books to his credit, including five different fiction series as well as a number of forensic science books aimed at helping writers get their medical science-based stories right. With that you might have guessed he knows something about medicine, and you would be right – in addition to hi

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with best-selling author Craig Johnson. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire . He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award f

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Can an ME determine the type of knife used in a murder by examining the wounds? Join Host DP Lyle, MD for a fascinating question from a crime writer and a discussion of forensic knife wound analysis. 📺 WATCH: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet DP Lyle is the Amazon #1 Bestselling; Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Award-winning; and Edgar(2), Agatha, Anthony, Shamus, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Today Bes