On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Jason McCall interviews Tasha Coryell.

Tasha Coryell is the author of the debut novel Love Letters to A Serial Killer. Her forthcoming novel, Matchmaking for Psychopaths, is now available for preorder.

Jason McCall is the author of the essay collection Razed by TV Sets (Autofocus, 2024) and the poetry collections What Shot Did You Ever Take (co-written with Brian Oliu); A Man Ain’t Nothin’; Two-Face God; Mother, Less Child ; Dear Hero; I Can Explain; and Silver. He and P.J. Williams are the editors of It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. 

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Conversation topics include:

--seasons / the cold

-- ambience videos

-- wanting to be a writer at eight

-- re-shifting priorities

-- moving into the thriller genre

-- learning to write novels

-- relaxing about publishing

-- running

-- unpublished novels

-- writing while succeeding

-- the debut novel Love Letters to a Serial Killer

-- the journey of the manuscript to publication

-- a very millennial character

-- academia

-- reading about serial killers / true crime

-- enjoying writing the character

-- writing an entertaining book

-- the forthcoming Matchmaking for Psychopaths

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Podcast theme music  by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.