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Not the Killer, But His Wife

This week’s book was The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter. It was published in 2021, and apparently Hunter has a few thematically related books, The Serial Killer’s Daughter and The Serial Killer’s Sister. She worked as an interventions facilitator in a prison, often working with prisoners who’d committed violent crimes. So one would assume she comes to fiction with a deep understanding of the criminal mind and the social fallout related to those crimes — especially when it comes to how the crimes can effect the family. Before I get into the book, I want to point out that I have read three books in a month. Me. Super-slow-reader-Koji…

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Getting to the Roots: The Killer Inside Me

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. Okay, I had to check that “fact”. So I just fell down a rabbit hole of history sites, blogs, critiques and (gulp) thesis papers to confirm that The Killer Inside Me does seem to be the first book written from the POV of a serial killer, though neither the first book from the POV of…

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A Serial On Serial Killers

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 etc.) I want to go back to blogging. Of late I’ve been considering the “content age” that we’re in — where we’re all told we need to constantly produce content or we’ll be forgotten. I’ve wanted to stop chasing that, and only put out “content” that is authentic and meaningful. Of course, getting out of…

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Casual, 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 day. Your book is out in the world, available for general purchase. Anyone who wants to can pick up a copy and read it. It’s exhilarating. It’s also a bit strange. Because, yes, release day is here, but a book isn’t like a movie or a song. Most people don’t buy a book and read it in a single…

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On Having Two Children aka Authoring with Multiple Releases

This year I have the absolute honor of having two books come out. That, in itself, feels awesome to say, and I don’t want to be ungrateful for the opportunities I’ve been given. But, I will say that somewhere around January 2nd I realized I am perhaps vastly unprepared to have two very different books coming out in the same year. Casual is a near future dystopian novel that comes out February 11 from Tenebrous Press Hold My Heart is a steamy noir cosmic horror novella coming out from Ghost Orchid Press on May 27 When signing contracts, I discussed the release dates with both publishers, making sure it wasn’t…

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