Self Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom

Self Help for Serial Killers has been long listed for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger, and the Amazon Publishing and Capital Crime New Voices Award. Each episode will be published at the begining of the month, and will be available in the podcast app of your choice, or on this page. There is also a Patreon to support the podcast, and help cover the costs of creation, and you can get early access to episodes and lots of bonus content, including work sheets, playlist, deleted scenes and a view into the research process and world building.

SHFSK is a satire which lampoons the superficiality of self help culture and motivational quotes, and how they can be manipulated and misused, while also exposing the ways in which microaggressions work to create a cover for larger acts of violence. It operates as a feminist take on the serial killer genre which goes further than hackneyed gender reversal or straight up revenge story. SHFSK is the millennial daughter of American Psycho.

In SHFSK Main Fawkes, writes from his cell in Carstairs State Hospital, about his early life, crimes and his cat and mouse chase with DCI Halliday Campbell his nemeses and love interest, and future plans. Take his tests and see if you have what it takes to kills, or are you a shadow artist?