Here are a handful of writing-related stories worth chewing over this weekend:

If you really want to get away with murder, don’t write about it in your best-selling thriller and then taunt the police with evidence of your “genius.”

Cherie Priest made a really strong debut with her horror novel “Four and Twenty Blackbirds.” Here’s what she’s learned since the publication of her first book.

Anybody who has a vested interest in the health of newspaper book review sections should read this (long) article by Steve Wasserman, former editor of the LA Times Book Review.