Lou Skrivara "Moldeth City doesn't forgive. It just forgets slower than you'd like."

Incident log Lou Skrivara

Category: Inside Moldeth City

Everything about Moldeth City itself: the three families, the neighborhoods, the Purge that split its history in two, and the rot holding it all up. The world behind the novels.

  1. July 23, 2026

    Inside Moldeth City

    Everybody in These Books Is Somebody's Son

    Count the fathers in these books. Most of them are dead. That's not an accident — it's the architecture. On inheritance, dead fathers, and debt that skips a generation.

  2. July 7, 2026

    Inside Moldeth City

    The Real Boss of Moldeth City Is the Zoning Board

    People ask who really runs Moldeth City. It isn't the three families. It's a board that meets the second Tuesday of the month — and you can't indict a zoning board.

  3. June 30, 2026

    Inside Moldeth City

    A Map of Moldeth City

    Every city has a shape, and the shape tells you who's afraid of whom. A reader's guide to Moldeth City — three families, three directions, and a port nobody owns.

  4. April 9, 2026

    Craft & Voice / Inside Moldeth City

    Nobody in My Books Can Quit

    Every book, somebody tries to get out. Nobody does. Not cops, not cells — the loan you can't repay. On debt as the engine of a crime series.

  5. March 19, 2026

    Craft & Voice / Inside Moldeth City

    Why My Characters Aren't Named Tony

    There's a list over my desk of names I can't use. Tony's on it. Why the famous names do your work for you — and why that's a problem.

  6. February 19, 2026

    Craft & Voice / Inside Moldeth City

    Gravy, Not Sauce: Why the Small Stuff Carries the Whole Book

    Call it "sauce" and the reader who knows closes the book. Why the small, specific stuff carries the whole novel.

  7. February 2, 2026

    Inside Moldeth City

    The Purge: The Real History Behind Moldeth City's Ground Zero

    The feds called it a victory. The old bosses had rules; the ones who replaced them didn't. The real history behind Moldeth City's ground zero.