Killers by Blake Crouch; Jack Kilborn

Author:Blake Crouch; Jack Kilborn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Joe Konrath
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In Which Blake and Joe Interview Each Other About the Experience of Writing KILLERS…

Joe: So here were are again. Back in 2009 we wrote SERIAL as a kind of experiment. We each created a serial killer, wrote a section without showing each other, then pitted our creations against one another to see who would win. I’m astonished that a simple 7000 word story done for our own amusement has garnered so much attention. We sold film rights, audio rights, appeared in an anthology with Stephen King (SHIVERS VI), and have given away over 350,000 ebooks. Why do you think so many people liked that story?

Blake: I think most people have a dark side, and that stories like this give them an opportunity to safely explore it.

KILLERS turned out to be quite a bit longer than SERIAL, or even really what we intended.

Joe: We had more to do in KILLERS. In SERIAL, we had to establish our baddies, then try to kill each other. In KILLERS we had to establish them, help them escape, pit them against each other, then bring in Luther. Speaking of Luther…

Blake: My favorite villain I’ve written (although Lucy is a close second) in terms of sheer writing fun. One of the interesting things we did with KILLERS, was take these two depraved human beings, two hunters (Lucy and Donaldson) and then turn the tables on them. Make them the hunted. Make them victims.

Joe: I was kinda feeling sorry for them at the end. Remind me why we brought Luther into this, other than to punish our characters.

Blake: Luther is going up against Jack Daniels in the upcoming novel we’re working on called STIRRED, which will conclude both your JD series and my Andrew Z. Thomas series. At the end of SERIAL UNCUT, Luther sees Jack Daniels on the television, talking about Donaldson. He figures if he’s going to go up against this very formidable cop, he should drop in on Donaldson and find out about their run-in (which occurred in the novella TRUCK STOP).

Joe: Luther also knew Lucy from your novella BAD GIRL. Both BAD GIRL and TRUCK STOP were combined with SERIAL to create SERIAL UNCUT. We also brought in Mr. K (the villain from my seventh JD novel, SHAKEN) and Taylor (from AFRAID and TRAPPED.)

Blake: One big, psychopathic family.

Joe: So, will we do the same thing with KILLERS? Make a KILLERS UNCUT?

Blake: I think the chances are very good that a KILLERS UNCUT will appear in the mid-March - April 2011 timeframe.

How was writing KILLERS different from writing SERIAL?

Joe: One thing we did, which I loved, was use Dropbox and Google Docs. We used Dropbox previously with Draculas (co-written with Jeff Strand and F. Paul Wilson). Dropbox is a program that lets people share the same document by saving it in a folder that appears on both people’s computers. But Google docs was new.

Blake: Google docs made the collaboration experience even better, I think, since it allowed us to type in the same document at the same time, and edit each other as we worked.

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