My grandson, a college student, asked if I gain any special insights from writing about crime. He raised the age-old question, “Can people be born evil? Can life events force them to become that way?” There are no clear-cut, scientific answers, of course, but it is interesting to ponder how we become the people we are. We have all experienced our share of trauma, but if hunger, poverty, and mistreatment made people evil, wouldn’t the residents … [Read more...]
MJ Preston Discusses The Journey That Led To ACADIA EVENT
Being a writer often means having to hold down a day job. This is nothing new. When Stephen King was writing his breakout novel, CARRIE, he was holding down a job as a substitute teacher and working in an industrial laundry. I’m no different, for years I have worked a day job, first as a soldier in the Canadian military and as a truck driver. If you asked me 20 years ago if driving a truck would lead to the writing of my second novel, ACADIA … [Read more...]
Author Christian Barth on Samuel Cowell, Ted Bundy’s Abusive Grandfather: Fact Or Fiction?
From somewhere within Dante Alighieri’s Ninth Circle of Hell, encased far beneath the deepest strata of ice the Florentine bard carved especially for Judas Iscariot, the ghost of Ted Bundy has surfaced, merrily laughing. With the rating success of the true-crime docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, America’s preoccupation with the notorious serial killer has rekindled once more, enjoying a peculiar renaissance unseen since … [Read more...]
Charity Lee On Her Motivation For Telling Her Story
Once in the past … Actually most days. Ok. Every day. To be entirely honest, it is every day since I acquired working retainable memory. Every day, I awake only to find myself broken by day end. Then broken again. And again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Infinitely, maddening, nightmarishly beautiful, yet again. This has happened for years. This will continue for years. This has happened over so many years, it … [Read more...]
Charity Lee On “Making Something Beautiful Come Out of My Family’s Ugliness”
Writing this book was an experience that was gut-wrenching, humbling, and ultimately rewarding. It also reminded me of many things, some I didn’t want to be reminded of. One day years ago, as I stood on my back deck, in the sunshine, watching my dog play with the cats in the grass, I had an epiphany. They are common in my life but, contrary to popular belief, epiphanies don’t always bring a peaceful understanding of an issue. Sometimes they … [Read more...]
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS Photo Gallery
The photos from Kevin's Sullivan's latest true crime book, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS See all of our award-winning and best-selling true crime books. … [Read more...]
Christian Barth
I never set out to become a writer. When I graduated from college, I was a directionless and unmarketable young man with a political science degree. Fresh off two stage productions, for a brief time, I entertained delusional fantasies of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor, but for the next two years, what theatrical aspirations I'd secretly harbored were subsumed by the ebb and flow of what we do before we discover what we want to do with … [Read more...]
The Author Of TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE On The Presidential Pardon of Lieutenant Lorance
Before Travesty of Justice was originally released on March 31, 2019, the case of Lieutenant Clint Lorance had largely been lost in the national media. In the four-month period from December 2018 through April 2, 2019, fifteen national television reports featured so-called “war crimes” cases, calling for presidential action. All these stories focused on either Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher, or Army Major Matt Golsteyn, who were both in the … [Read more...]
Lawrence Davis Discusses His PTSD And How It Shaped “The Stalker” In His Novels
Warning: this could have some quasi-spoilers. The Stalker was, to me, a physical embodiment of PTSD. You see, this actually started as a project in therapy, and it’s also the thing that made me pay closer attention to my subconscious. The first variation of the book was a short story about somebody very tired, and beat down, trying to come home but they can’t because of a monster waiting for them at their door. My PTSD, once I was … [Read more...]
Roman Martín: Dispelling The Myth That You Have To Kill To Be Made
Welcome back to my blog, lieblings! Yeah, yeah, I know I said I was gonna do this twice a week so mea culpa – I promise to get my shizzle together ASAP. Anyways, today’s rant will continue my theme of dispelling yet another bullshit Hollywood myth – i.e., that you have to commit a contract murder to get badged (formally inducted) into the Honored Society of the Italian-American Mafia. And in all fairness, many of my favorite … [Read more...]
