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The 6 Principles of Professional Writing with Lowell Cauffiel, Principle 2: Inspiration is a Writer’s Worst Enemy

Nov 30, 2013

Novelist and TV Writer/Producer Lowell Cauffiel was born in Michigan. An award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, Cauffiel began his book writing career in 1988 with “Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder”. That title, and his 1997 New York Times bestseller “House of Secrets”, have appeared on many critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he's known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style.