PF: We geek out pretty hard here at PureFandom. You can check my website or on Twitter for dates and times.

It would mean a lot to me, as a customer.”įor any of the Pure Fandom fandom out there from or near Arkansas, I will be on tour through the state in the month of September, with stops in Fayetteville, Russellville, Little Rock, Texarkana, and others.

Do you think you could stock it? He’s my best friend. I would be your best friend for doing such a thing, so you could honestly say, “Hey, my friend wrote a book. If it isn’t on the shelf, just ask them to order it. Or through my website ( Or my publisher’s site ( You should also be able to find it in your local bookstore. MC: The easiest place to find it is on Amazon. So, while I want readers to care about the characters, hopefully in a way that might inspire a little added empathy in real life, I also think it’s a fun and thrilling read. With all of that said, I will emphasize that it’s still a crime thriller. To write a thrilling crime novel involving very real people in an empathetic way. Can I put a group of characters through the ringer of a thriller and make readers care about them in a way that might spill over beyond the bloodshed? That was the goal of the book. As a writer, that all turned into a bit of a writing prompt or a challenge, so to speak. Sometime around then, I rewatched the Hitchcock classic, North By Northwest.Īs I watched it, it occurred to me that Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) was experiencing what marginalized people feel all the time: this constant dread and fear and feeling of having to keep your head on a swivel. Couple that with the beginning of the Me Too movement and I was pretty deep in a pit of empathy mumbling about the world being a dumpster fire.

The ideas all came to me in a swirl of emotions following the string of events which built to a heartbreaking boiling point of the Black Lives Matter movement.

During the chase, we meet Sameer Zardari, who is desperately seeking his missing husband Marlowe Holliverse and his sister, Shelley, who are trying to find their brother and, Bright Hudson, a female detective fighting her way through a boys’ club to figure out who is stacking bodies in Graffiti Creek, a painted up bridge on the outskirts of town. Cary Trubody gets pulled over in what begins as a routine traffic stop and quickly turns into a forty-hour chase scene, which is the core of the book. And by the fact that they are all marginalized in and by society. Matt Coleman: Graffiti Creek is about a group of people connected by one mysterious and unknown item. Pure Fandom: Your novel Graffiti Creek was recently released! What can you tell us about it? Here we will chat with an author about their work and theirįavorite nerdy loves! This super cool edition will feature Matt Coleman, author of Graffiti Creek! I had the pleasure of chatting with Matt about his latest book, his love of Supernatural and his writing ritual!

Under the Blade by Matt Serafini