Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
Who Am I?
I have something in common with Francis Dolarhyde, the killer in Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. He was becoming. So am I. I’m less sure of what I am becoming than he is, but still. The big difference between us is that he is a serial killer, whereas, I was almost a victim of one. Back in the eighties, a man who had raped seven women, and killed six of them, came after me. Not an experience I care to repeat, but I really learned a lot from it.
Before starting the Trey Fontaine Mystery series, I wrote seven books. Historical, women’s fiction, romance and western. They fit neatly under the bed. Then one day when it was time to go to critique group and all my books had been critiqued, I was empty handed. I sat down and quickly punched out two pages of gore. When…
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