Recommended for Writers: Bullies, Bastards & Bitches by Jessica Page Merrell

Bullies, Bastards & Bitches is a great title for a book about Baddies, don’t you think?

Whereas Rayne Hall’s Writing About Villains provides plenty of checklists and nuts and bolts for your villains, Jessica Merrell excels at analysis and example. She dissects numerous villains from literature to show the various shades of evil, from wicked gods to annoying neighbors. I think both approaches are useful and balance each other.