CLASS 57 Ripped from Headlines: Tweaking True Crime for Fiction

Actual events can provide great characters and twists. Many bestselling writers have found inspiration in them. This class will show how to locate such stories and view them from a creative angle.

Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology and behavioral criminology in the graduate program at DeSales University. She has appeared as an expert on more than 250 crime documentaries and was an executive producer on Murder House Flip and A&E’s Confession of a Serial killer: BTK. The author of more than 1,800 articles and 73 books, including Confession of a Serial Killer, The Serial Killer’s Apprentice and How to Catch a Killer, she pens a regular blog for Psychology Today. She has also written a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist who consults on death investigations. Dead-Handed is her most recent book.

https://www.katherineramsland.net/