Archive - October, 2009

Sneak peek: TBC cover copy

October 27, 2009 in Journal with 4 Comments

This is the approved cover copy for the advanced reader’s version of The Bride Collector, a Dekker thriller coming in April 2010 from Hachette/Center Street. Enjoy the sneak peek. -KSK


TBC

FBI special agent Brad Raines is facing his most complex case yet. A Denver serial killer has murdered a string of beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each scene, and he’s picking up his pace.  Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill people who are extraordinarily gifted.


It’s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand.  Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person’s life when she touches the dead body.


In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise’s help. Gradually he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls…or inside.


As the Bride Collector picks up the pace – and volume – of his gruesome killings, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector’s fourth target.  And she isn’t the last – by far.

Project K2//Episode 2

October 27, 2009 in Journal with 4 Comments

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -James Allen

There’s that word again.

October 24, 2009 in Journal with 1 Comment

mystery

“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer– they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.” -Ken Kesey

Ask Ted: The Craft of Writing Novels

October 19, 2009 in Journal with 26 Comments

As a marketing guy, sometimes I get to do fun production stuff. Later this week, I’m headed to Austin, TX for a video shoot with Ted. We’re mostly capturing footage for use on the web in 2010, but we also have a few tricks up our sleeves. As we were scripting the day out, I thought, “You know, this would be a good time to record Ted riffing on the craft of writing. Why not? We have a lot of writers in our community who would get a kick out of that.”

typewriter

I pitched the idea to Ted and he liked it. So it’s now officially part of the day’s schedule, thank you very much. Time block #3 to be exact, “Writer Conversations–Ted talks about the craft of writing.”

Here’s how you can be part of the process. If you’re a writer or someone interested in the craft of writing, let me know what questions you want answered. Anything’s fair game as long as it’s about the craft of writing. So, please, no questions about specific Dekker novels, characters, etc. unless it has to do with the “how” of writing.

Leave your questions here on my blog as a comment. I’ll compile them all before the shoot and then hit Ted with both barrels when we sit down on-camera. Here’s your chance to have that one question that keeps you awake at night finally answered.

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