Question: How did you come up with the name of the book? Interestingly enough, my agent was the one who suggested the title Every Deadly Kiss. Both my editor and I loved it so much that we decided to go for it (originally, I had an entire storyline built around a killer who would […]
Month: April 2017
The Yellow Ribbon Strangler—Terror in the Hills
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of THE PAWN, I went through my files of transcript interviews that Crime View TV did with Patrick Bowers, a profiler, and a park ranger. Here’s the first transcript. We’ll be posting the other two soon! EXCERPT FROM: Crime View Primetime EPISODE 759, Partition 1 of 3 TITLE: The […]
Question of the week: Building up to the release of EVERY DEADLY KISS
Steve, with the release of EVERY DEADLY KISS, will you be having any sort of book signings? Our official book release party will be July 7th from 6 to 8pm at The Coffee Company in Elizabethton, Tennessee. While I’ll be signing copies of Every Deadly Kiss, we’ll also have a random drawing for our traditional […]
QUESTION FROM A READER: WHAT RIGHTS ARE MOST IMPORTANT FOR A FIRST-TIME AUTHOR TO RETAIN?
Let’s say that a big, reputable publisher (as in a branch of one of the big five) wants to publish a first-time author’s manuscript. What rights are most important for a first-time author to retain? Over the years I’ve found that many aspiring and first-time authors are concerned about rights—which ones to retain, which ones […]