Koji A. Dae
When I picked up Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell, I’ll admit I was looking for something lighter than what I’ve been reading. One can only go so dark before they need to pull back and laugh a little. While I wouldn’t call the book a comedy, I will say that it […]
This was an unexpected jog off the path for me. I usually class cannibal stories as separate from serial killer stories. In my mind, they are closer to zombie stories than serial killer stories. I guess the flesh eating aspect of it (which, I find super gross) puts them into the same “ew” box in […]
There’s something so familiar about the teenage slasher genre that it’s almost comforting. In that way, There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins was a — (dare I say it?) — cozy read. The book was published in 2017, and was Perkin’s first foray into horror, her first three books being contemporary romance. The […]
One of the earliest published books on my serial killer to-read list was The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. Thompson is a pulp writer of the 1950s, with over 30 books published, and The Killer Inside Me is one of the first serial killer books from the point of view of the serial killer. […]
Musings on Crushing Snails by Emma E. Murray and the first blog in my series on serial killers in contemporary literature.
I’ve been thinking of what I want to do with my blog. As social media has fallen off for me (Twitter makes me angry. Blue Sky is nice at times, but I find I still spend too much time scrolling. I can’t for the life of me figure out how Instagram is supposed to work […]
Casual is available now! Releasing a book is a bit of a rolling process. ARCs go out months before the book is released. Some pre-releases (like the e-book for Tenebrous book club members) come out a few days early. Book stores get their stock and shelve it. And then… suddenly, it’s here. The actual release […]
I’ve had some very positive feedback on my forthcoming novel, Casual, in the past few weeks. Ivy Grimes compared it to 1984 and Brave New World. Then Lit Hub said it is “Up there with Atwood, Bradbury, Dick and Gibson.” These are books and authors that I have grown up with, that I respect immensely, […]