When explaining his fiction writing process, prolific author C.S. Lewis wrote that his books began with seeing pictures in his head. “At first,” he elaborated, “they were not a story, just pictures . . . a picture of a faun carrying parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my head since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'" As I went about writing my first story, my process unfolded in much

Ever since I was a teenager, for some macabre reason, I have enjoyed reading and watching anything true crime. Over the years, as I absorbed the admonition to "make a living doing what you are passionate about," I thought about how I might involve true crime reporting in such a venture. How could I make a living writing about such a topic? I still may not have the answer, because I am not making a living by covering true crime . . . yet. When the idea for Most Foully Murthere