Joe Hill on The Shining Girls
Salon’s Ultimate Book Guide 2013 asked writers from Junot Díaz to Lee Child to recommend their favourite books they read this year. (I raved about Max Barry’s Lexicon, a smart, twisty […]
Favourite things of 2013
Forbidden Planet asked me to write about some of my favourite books, comics and TV shows from 2013, from The Oatmeal’s personal essays to Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips Fatale, […]
Literary Hunger Games & Best Interviews 2013
Zola Books got their staff to propose a literary Hunger Games, nominating their favourite characters from novels that might stand a chance in a literary death match. I’m thrilled […]
Violence as a first language
I lost my cool in this interview with Zola Books, particularly talking about how we depict violence and serial killers and a friend’s murder that still makes me upset. But […]
Goodreads Choice Semi-Finals
Super-stoked that The Shining Girls made the semi-finals of GoodReads Choice Awards Best Books of 2013 in the Mystery & Thriller section. There are some very fine books on the […]
Book of the Year – Exclusive Books’ Readers’ Choice Award
The Shining Girls is Book of The Year in Exclus1ve Books’ Readers’ Choice award. Thanks to all the wonderful choosy readers! It was up against nine other titles, selected as Book of […]
All The Pretty Corpses: On Violence
I wrote an essay over at The Richard & Judy Bookclub, about the treatment of violence in The Shining Girls, the personal story that partly inspired the book, why violence in […]
Cosmo Book Club On The Shining Girls
I’m thrilled that The Shining Girls is the kick-off title for Cosmopolitan Magazine UK’s new Book Club. Interestingly, Cosmopolitan’s Lorna Gray told me that get the most hits when they post about […]