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CHRISTOPHER SWANN

Author of NEVER BACK DOWN

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  • Books
    • Myopic Duplicity: A Crime Thriller Anthology
    • Never Back Down
    • Never Go Home
    • Trouble No More: Crime Fiction
    • A Fire in the Night
    • Never Turn Back
    • Shadow of the Lions
  • Blog
    • Why Do We Write? (9/20/25)
    • Every Word Is a Win (6/23/25)
    • The Write Now Podcast (3/19/2024)
    • The best crime fiction that features powerful female characters (7/17/23)
    • Interview with author T. M. Dunn (6/28/2023)
    • Sometimes, We Want Complicated (9/6/2022)
    • Friends & Fiction Fall Season Kickoff (8/17/2022)
    • Friends & Fiction Interview (12/1/2021)
    • Six Great Novels with Mysterious Protagonists (9/10/21)
    • Why I Write About Crime (11/22/20)
    • Novel Number Two (10/5/20)
    • Writing #coronaverse (5/21/20)
    • My First Time Meeting an Author (8/26/19)
    • This is not the America in which I want to live (8/13/2019)
    • WFS 30th Reunion: “Where are the lions?” (7/24/2019)
    • Townsend Prize for Fiction Ceremony (4/19/18)
    • Malaprop’s in Asheville, N.C. (8/10/17)
    • Park Road Books in Charlotte, N.C. (8/9/17)
    • You Can’t Go Home Again? (8/9/17)
    • Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, N.C. (8/8/17)
    • Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, N.C. (8/7/17)
    • Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, AL (8/4/17)
    • Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN (8/3/17)
    • Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA (8/2/17)
    • Book Launch for SHADOW OF THE LIONS (8/1/17)
    • Write What You Know, With a Vengeance (5/14/17)
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Why Do We Write?

September 30, 2025 by Christopher Swann

My latest Substack post on failure, joy, and the magic of writing.

The Passion of Creation by Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945)

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