O.M.G. The fact that you didn’t include the mass shooting in your book 📕 about murder is fodder for its own book, perhaps Murder Book Part 2?
Congratulations 🎈🎈🎈on the 3rd birthday 🥳 of your book. How wonderful that it’s being used by professors as a part of their courses on murder. To me that’s the best review you could get. The only thing that could top that would be a good review from Mawmaw.
Happy 3rd book birthday! To celebrate, I'm going to re-read it--now with a minty-fresh new "university studies" feeling!
For whatever this person's opinion is worth, your instincts about leaving out your school shooting story were appropriate. Not at all the same thing, and this was a book about your personal feelings toward murder podcasts and shows. School shootings seem an entirely different subject, and, as you said, something that seems to need larger social commentary--a big issue. I think of Murder Book as memoir, but that subject feels more like a comics journalism topic, maybe?
Anyway, thank you for sharing your experience here. There's a lot of trust in that, and it's appreciated.
Will also say how much I LOVE MamMam's thoughts on the book!! Your gestures and expressions rule.
omg tell me how a re-read goes! Who knows what lens these Universities are approaching it with! Would love to know how professors engage with every scene that I'm peeing in...
I do believe my instincts were right to keep it out, thank you for validating that! There's so many intelligent and provoking books out there already studying the mass shooting phenomenon, I feel I have no place discussing it. Though I'm sure people who did not like Murder Book might say I have no place discussing any of this, so who knows?
MamMam is a freaking GEM, my god do I love that woman!!! She's constantly walking around telling my boyfriend that I'm too thin, "She don't eat James... she don't eat." If anyone ever needs an ego boost I suggest calling her!!!
Enjoyed hearing from you today. Can’t wait to get the book. Looking forward to it.
Hello!!!
O.M.G. The fact that you didn’t include the mass shooting in your book 📕 about murder is fodder for its own book, perhaps Murder Book Part 2?
Congratulations 🎈🎈🎈on the 3rd birthday 🥳 of your book. How wonderful that it’s being used by professors as a part of their courses on murder. To me that’s the best review you could get. The only thing that could top that would be a good review from Mawmaw.
If I ever dared to write a part 2 it very well could be...
i think mam mam secretly liked it but you had to wade through her anxiety first lollllll
I just realized the caption in my newsletter makes it look like my friend Katherine was killed but she very much was not!
Someone asked if I had ever done a "making of" Murder Book post, so I just wanted to link it here!
https://open.substack.com/pub/cartoonsbyhilary/p/murder-book-is-coming?r=poto0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Happy 3rd book birthday! To celebrate, I'm going to re-read it--now with a minty-fresh new "university studies" feeling!
For whatever this person's opinion is worth, your instincts about leaving out your school shooting story were appropriate. Not at all the same thing, and this was a book about your personal feelings toward murder podcasts and shows. School shootings seem an entirely different subject, and, as you said, something that seems to need larger social commentary--a big issue. I think of Murder Book as memoir, but that subject feels more like a comics journalism topic, maybe?
Anyway, thank you for sharing your experience here. There's a lot of trust in that, and it's appreciated.
Will also say how much I LOVE MamMam's thoughts on the book!! Your gestures and expressions rule.
omg tell me how a re-read goes! Who knows what lens these Universities are approaching it with! Would love to know how professors engage with every scene that I'm peeing in...
I do believe my instincts were right to keep it out, thank you for validating that! There's so many intelligent and provoking books out there already studying the mass shooting phenomenon, I feel I have no place discussing it. Though I'm sure people who did not like Murder Book might say I have no place discussing any of this, so who knows?
MamMam is a freaking GEM, my god do I love that woman!!! She's constantly walking around telling my boyfriend that I'm too thin, "She don't eat James... she don't eat." If anyone ever needs an ego boost I suggest calling her!!!
OMG, MamMam gems need to be in the newsletter on the regular!! We all need a dose of MamMam! *hearts*
I’ll let her know 👧🏻