Genre and Mystery writer Shannon Muir, who also administrates the blog THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF, gives her personal insights on the field and how she came to be a part of it, and then the first year of launching a blog focused on it. She breaks down how she got the idea to do the blog, through the major steps in its initial launch and her larger thoughts on the blog's positioning in the mystery and crime book landscape. Additionally, the collection includes a mystery short story set in Hollywood where a new writer in town suddenly finds herself a suspect in a murder, called "First Deadly Hollywood Break".