All Blog Posts Tagged 'serial' (80)

Accused Serial Killer Who Distrusts Government Set to Represent Himself

We’ve all seen an episode of our favorite television crime drama during which the accused criminal becomes frustrated with his attorney and decides to represent himself in court. Perhaps to add to the theatrics of the small screen, sometimes the villain reveals a surprising grasp of the law and courtroom procedures. However, the reality is that choosing to act as your…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on May 26, 2011 at 2:56am — 1 Comment

THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS Reaches Top 10 in Kindle's Serial Killer Books

THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego, my bestselling true crime book, reaches #8 on Kindle's Top 100 Bestsellers in Serial Killers True Accounts. Book was the inspiration for crime documentaries on the Biography Channel and Investigation…

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Added by R. Barri Flowers on May 22, 2011 at 6:00am — No Comments

Here’s What Readers are Saying… about My Latest Thriller Silent Partner

I’ve been ecstatic about the “thumbs up” I’ve been receiving from dog handlers and K9 officers about Silent Partner. Thank you! It means a lot to me because I wanted to do the K9 units justice by portraying them in a one of my stories.

Here are some comments by readers…

John Walker

5 out of 5…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on May 20, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Serial Killer’s Paintings to Be Sold for Charity

Criminals who are waiting out their time on death row engage in a variety of activities to make the days pass. Some read countless law books in hopes of finding a way to appeal their sentence. Others take up writing or music in the limited ways that their circumstances will allow. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on May 15, 2011 at 1:48am — 3 Comments

How do you like your villains? Naughty-by-nature or naughty-by-nurture?

I've been thinking about serial killers lately. And how weird it is that I've never met one. I mean, according to the world of fictional film and books, serial killers are everywhere, stalking our friends and neighbors, waiting in the bushes, and always watching. And yet, strangely, I can't recall the last time my path has crossed with an electric drill-wielding maniac or a cross-dressing cannibal. Maybe I should get out more.

Or maybe it says something about our… Continue

Added by Copper Smith on May 13, 2011 at 8:35am — 2 Comments

Book signing, Oceanside, CA

As part of my trip to the US to see some of the filming of my novel, The Kult, I've got a book signing arranged at:

Barnes & Noble

El Camino North Shopping Center

2615 Vista Way

Oceanside, CA 92054

Date: October 6th

Time: 17.00 - 20.00

It would be great to meet as many people as…

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Added by Shaun Jeffrey on September 25, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Tuesday TV Interview on Investigation Discovery Channel's Wicked Attraction Series, Episode, "Twisted Twosome"

Hello, friends and fans:…

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Added by R. Barri Flowers on September 7, 2010 at 8:22am — No Comments

The Kult movie

My novel The Kult was optioned last year, and shooting starts in a few weeks (September 27th). There's a website with all spangly things on like video interviews with the cast and sample music for the soundtrack. If you're interested you can check it out at www.thekultmovie.com and you can add the film as a friend on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thekultmovie

Added by Shaun Jeffrey on September 5, 2010 at 8:04am — No Comments

The Kult film

The principal cast for the filming of my book, The Kult have now been chosen, and filming begins in late September: http://gharialproductions.com/news/principal-cast-for-the-kult-announced/

Anyone who wants to check the book out can purchase either the print version from Amazon etc: http://www.shaunjeffrey.com/The%20Kult.html, or a…

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Added by Shaun Jeffrey on June 10, 2010 at 10:03pm — No Comments

Finally, good news to report about my Unsolved book!

Hello Everyone,

Almost a year to the day after my last post (time sure flies, doesn't it?), I am pleased to announce my new True Crime book is finished, and will be available at fine booksellers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Chapters, Target, Indigo, and many more at the end of May.

Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases profiles 12 still-solvable cases from 1967 to the present day. Not all the cases are well-known,…

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Added by Robert J. Hoshowsky on May 27, 2010 at 1:02pm — 1 Comment

A Day For A Day! ...... your signed copy!

Mystery/Suspense novel, A Day For A Day seems to be picking up momentum!
Signed copies can be purchased here http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?id=39083

Still available on Amazon.com (Go to books, type in A Day For A Day!

Thanks so much! - Donna Lee Comer

Added by Donna Lee Comer on March 31, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Thanks to everyone!

Hello everyone,

I am a new author recently published on Amazon. I live in Red Lion, Pa. I am a wife of forty years, mother of four and

grandmother of six.

I have been reading since school days and always wanted to write a book.

Finally back in 2007 I had an idea for a mystery/thriller fiction novel

and began writing.

I entered the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest but did not make it to

the second round. However, my book has been published and… Continue

Added by Donna Lee Comer on March 30, 2010 at 12:56pm — No Comments

Midheaven

Long ago, Viking Press published my novel Midheaven. But the editor who bought it gave up the business, and even when it became a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel, no paperback edition came out.

Last year, just for the heck of it, I read it over and, discovering the years had made me a far better writer, I revised and sent it to a couple publishers. The response didn’t surprise me.

The mainstream publisher didn’t approve of the Christian… Continue

Added by Ken Kuhlken on January 12, 2010 at 9:34am — 3 Comments

Kinda Sick of Sick

I think I've hit the wall on serial killers. The book I'm reading, dubbed not-put-downable by lots of critics, languishes on my night stand, very probably because I don't care any more how many ways there are to die screaming.

I have the same feeling I had as a much younger woman when I began to realize that I didn't want to wade through sex scenes, no longer cared how the author described the fitting together of male and female anatomies. Enough. I get it. I'll skip to where the… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on December 28, 2009 at 8:57pm — 3 Comments

So you want to write about serial killers?

I don’t know about you, but a serial killer is a sure way to get me to check out the cover copy of a book. Why are we as a society so fascinated by them? In my opinion it’s mostly their alien quality, the sense that they are something apart from the rest of us. Not to mention that we are used to being the top of the food chain, and serial killers imply that we really aren’t.

Whatever the reason, things sure have changed since we first saw Psycho. Due to the glut of serial killers in the… Continue

Added by M.C. Peery on August 6, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Review: Catch Me a Killer, Micki Pistorius

An insightful profile of South Africa’s leading forensic profiler

Every crime writer needs his or her good sources, and this is one of those autobiographies by a top forensic profiler which is invaluable, particularly when you're writing about serial killers in South Africa. The political and social landscape of that country are unique, and it is terrifying to see the kind of violence which that country's apartheid history bred. When Micki first came to work for the… Continue

Added by Richard Kunzmann on April 15, 2009 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Serial Cheaters

(Cross Posted on One BIte at a Time.)

Ancient Greek playwrights had a simple way to get themselves out of any corner they’d written themselves into: some god, even more bored than usual with immortality, would kill a few minutes by intervening in the mortal drama below. (I have an impression of the gods acting like twelve-year-old buys with a magnifying glass, watching an anthill, wondering what catastrophe they can think up next.)… Continue

Added by Dana King on April 2, 2009 at 7:01am — 7 Comments

chikatilo: The evil man

This is somewhat of a daunting task but I'm going to attempt it anyway because the subject intrigues me.

I am going to write about Andrei Chikatilo, the serial killer accused of murdering 52 women and children in the Russian SFSR (Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika).

I have recently finished reading Robert Cullen's "The Killer Department" and it is a fascinating story. Chikatilo is probably one of the most evil… Continue

Added by Gitte on January 19, 2009 at 9:11pm — No Comments

TV Interview on Investigation Discovery's Wicked Attraction on 9/11

Good day, all:

As a criminologist and crime writer, I will do a TV interview on the Investigation Discovery channel's new crime series on killer couples, Wicked Attraction.The episode is entitled, "Twisted Twosome," and will premiere on 9/11 at 9 p.m., and be shown several other times in the days to follow.

It will focus on husband and wife serial killers Gerald and Charlene, who murdered ten people during the 70s and 80s, motivated by sex slave… Continue

Added by R. Barri Flowers on August 3, 2008 at 9:16am — No Comments

Steve Mosby Interview

Suspect: Steve Mosby Known Aliases: The Notorious B.O.M. (Boring Old Me)

Occupation: Author

Last known location: Somewhere in Leeds (that's in the U.K. for you non-Brits)

Listen in as Steve talks about his take on serial killers in The 50/50 Killer, the influence of… Continue

Added by Angie on May 13, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments