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When wonderfully sick minds collide

The publication of SERIAL, early 2009, marked the beginning of a writing collaboration between Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, and Joe Konrath. The first (free) novella expanded to a novel and two years later has spawned several sequels, including Birds Of Prey and KILLERS. With SERIAL KILLERS, featuring the killers from most if not all the other books by Crouch, Kilborn, and Konrath, the series culminates in unbelievable mayhem, as you’d expect. The above poster shows how large and incestuous the Crouch-Kilborn-Konrath family has become, which family show up where, and the chronology of it all. Enjoy. For a larger format of the poster please email me.

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But the story doesn’t end with SERIAL KILLERS - there is more!

Out soon is STIRRED (cover art by Carl Graves). It features Crouch’s biggest villain Luther Kite and Konrath’s indestructible Jacqueline ‘Jack’ Daniels going head to head. STIRRED will be available from 22 November but can be pre-ordered from Amazon today.

Beyond a thrilling piece of horrifying suspense, Birds of Prey also takes the collaborative literary experiment begun in Serial and Killers to the next level, with most of the novel having been written in a Google Doc, where Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn could simultaneously write in real time. All bets were off, and may the best psycho win.

NOTE: Birds of Prey is a 40,000-word novella, which is FULLY CONTAINED in Killers Uncut and Serial Killers Uncut. If you’ve already bought Killers, this is all the new material contained in Killers Uncut except for Killers. If you haven’t read Killers yet, buy Killers Uncut.

Killers UNCUT is the next installment of the SERIAL series. First published two years ago by Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, and J.A. Konrath (website, blog), SERIAL quickly turned out to be an ebook sensation. To date it has been downloaded like ten million times, for real. Well - a lot, anyway. It is said people mellow with age - doesn’t apply to these guys, nor their protagonists. Read Killers UNCUT at your peril. After reading, please leave either a 5 or 1 star review - you’ll either LOVE it, or LOATHE it. No gray areas here. Buy it from amazon today.

Go to The Man Eating Bookworm blog for ‘Blake Crouch Week’, comment on one of the posts, and be in to win one of three SERIAL port folios made available. Signed by Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn (J.A. Konrath), and yours truly, this port folio (which includes a copy of the Norwood Press chapbook of Serial), is limited to 26 copies and rare indeed.

Serial was first offered for free on amazon in April 2009. Almost two years and 350,000 downloads later, Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn publish the sequel - Killers. If you thought Serial was intense, you’ll be rudely awakened reading the continued adventures of Lucy and Donaldson. Buy Killers from amazon.

I designed a full page ad for Crimespree, a magazine about mystery, thriller and suspense novelists and their work. The ad, a compressed version of an as yet unfinished poster, shows the sick and decidedly sordid family tree of books spawned by the perverted minds of the otherwise friendly and otherwise quite harmless Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, and J.A. Konrath. Not just a pleasure to work with, these authors write addictive books that will keep you up all night. To buy Blake’s books click here. Here for Jack Kilborn’s books, and for J.A. Konrath’s books click here.

Serial, for which I made my first ebook cover early 2009, is being relaunched on the back of DRACULAS (pre-order here). Downloaded over 250.000 times it is now available - with new extras - from amazon.com for the princely sum of US$ 0.99.

DRACULAS - a review

Something different. Instead of something I designed a review of DRACULAS, written by Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson. Available from amazon.com October 19th.

Following the success of Serial Uncut, Joe Konrath (aka Jack Kilborn) set out to take the concept of multiple authors working simultaneously on the same novel to the next level. Was Serial written ‘just’ by him and Blake Crouch, DRACULAS is a four-author-effort. Completing the team are Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson both legends in their own right. Buy DRACULAS here. The result is a no holds barred high octane horror novel that - thankfully - is far removed from the sensitive metro-sexual vampires that make young girls swoon. No adolescent wet dreams here - this is full on mayhem and the stuff of disturbing and frightening nightmares. For the lovers of vampires it should be considered a welcome return to the origins of the genre. DRACULAS is fast paced, dark, claustrophobic, scary, occasionally laugh out loud funny but always extremely entertaining.

In addition to the terrific DRACULAS the ebook offers a raft of extras. There are deleted scenes and alternate endings but most exciting, insightful and extremely entertaining is the exclusive behind-the-scenes ‘Making of DRACULAS’. There are over a hundred pages of transcripts of the chain of emails between the authors, from conception to completion with warts and all. It reveals how 4 very talented but very different authors set aside their egos, and how they - almost effortlessly it seems - collaborate to create a seamless and very exciting novel.

DRACULAS is an absolute must read for anyone who enjoys a fast paced and excellent horror story. The chain of emails is a must read for anyone remotely interested in the art of writing and collaboration.

Another chapter illustration for Serial Uncut, ground breaking novel written by Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, and J.A. Konrath. This illustration visualises the coming of age of Donaldson. Not the nicest of chaps. The ebook-version that includes all chapter illustrations is available from www.blakecrouch.com.

One of the seven chapter illustrations of Serial Uncut.