THE ENDURANCE OF THE WAR OF THE ROSES: A CAUTIONARY TALE OF DIVORCE AND ITS AFTERMATH By Warren Adler, Bestselling Novelist The North American premiere of my play The War of the Roses, based solely on the original novel, has opened at the Delaware Theatre Company in...
Dear Readers, There’s been a recent wave of letters from fans on my forum sharing their struggles in getting their work published. My first novel was published when I was 46, so I know a thing or two about being a late bloomer. The first thing to remember is...
An excerpt from KIRKUS REVIEWSRead the full Kirkus interview By 1997, when he was 70, Warren Adler had already released 27 novels and had 12 of them optioned for film adaptations, including the blockbuster The War of the Roses (1981) and Private Lies (1991). Despite...
From romantic love to deadly love, Warren Adler covers the whole spectrum of relationships in his repertoire of 50+ works of fiction, including his most famous tale of love gone wrong, "The War of the Roses."Aspiring writers can learn from his approaches to...
I’ve always considered myself a history buff and have written quite a few historical fiction novels requiring exhaustive amounts of research. Creating believable historical fiction means getting facts straight and making sure that your research and imaginative input...
Posted by Warren AdlerAs a prolific writer of more than fifty novels, I’ve been inspired by many mystery writers, from Georges Simenon to Agatha Christie, who’ve created indelible detectives that every mystery lover should know. These writers constructed complex,...
Today we bring you one of the America’s most enduring authors, who’s written across a range of genres from historical crime to drama and comedy. Best known for The War of the Roses, made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, he’s been an advocate...
Memory, at any age, is the essential ingredient in a novelist’s toolbox and particularly as a novelist grows older, he or she begins to pay especially close attention to the mysterious force, which is memory. Without pure and accurate memory, there can be no recall of...
Musings on the Future of Booksby Warren Adler @WarrenAdlerIn my imaginative life as a writer of fiction, I have always strived to come up with some idea that might invest my novels with something so unique, original and insightful that it could plant the seeds of...
I’ve taught creative writing courses for a number of years at several schools like NYU, and I always told my students what writing mistakes they should avoid. Here is a list of 3 writing mistakes that I have come across most often in my career. It doesn’t matter...
