The Writing Cave
A Finished Book and an NBC Radio Interview
It's been a busy week, so let's get right to it.
Tomorrow I’ll be at the MontCo Book Fest in Skippack, Pennsylvania. If you’re anywhere nearby, stop by and say hello.
The event runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, at 4039 Skippack Pike.
Then on Monday, I’ll be joining NBC News Radio’s House of Mystery Radio Show to talk about Secrets From a Serial Killer.
Recent guests have included James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Nick Cutter, Christopher Golden, David Baldacci, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, and even Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
And now me.
Not exactly the name you’d expect to see on that list, but I’m grateful to be there.
We’ll talk books, writing, serial killers, and probably how Secrets From a Serial Killer escaped my head and ended up on bookshelves and e-readers far beyond anything I expected. If things go completely off the rails, there may also be a discussion about favorite guitar solos.
Listen here: https://www.alanrwarren.com/house-of-mystery-radioshows
One more thing.
Brink of Ashes is done.
The final draft is finished. The cover got a makeover that fits the story a lot better, and now it’s almost in your hands.
This one is a little different from anything I’ve written before.
At its heart, it’s about a woman who’s spent years hiding from the worst person in her life. Then the power goes out, the world starts coming apart, and all the things that used to keep him away stop mattering.
Think The Housemaid meets The Road.
When the power grid fails and New York City begins to unravel, ER nurse Vera Hart flees with her children toward the Adirondacks. But the collapse isn’t her biggest problem. The man she’s spent years hiding from sees the chaos as an opportunity, and he’s coming.
Along the way, she crosses paths with Ben Rhodes, a man who trusts almost nobody and survives by keeping the rest of the world at arm’s length. Together they head north as the roads grow more dangerous, winter closes in, and old fears become very real.
Because the collapse didn’t create the threat.
It just set it free.
I can’t wait for you to read this one!
As always, thanks for reading. Stay safe.
J.C.
★★★★★ “THIS WOULD MAKE AN EXCITING MOVIE.”
★★★★★ “KEPT ME READING ALL NIGHT.”
No Way Out Alive is out now.
He took the case. Now the case is coming after him.
Frank Mallory survived the hit that killed his wife. He left New York, opened a small P.I. office in Buffalo, and built a quieter life. The work is steady. The rules are simple. Keep your head down. Don’t make noise.
Then a woman walks into his office.
Her brother-in-law disappeared after taking a security job nobody wants to talk about. The police think he ran. His family knows better.
Frank starts asking questions anyway.
Soon people are following him. Watching his office. Leaning on witnesses. Men with military training and expensive guns who want the whole thing buried.
Frank knows how these men operate. He used to be one of them.
They think he’ll back off before things turn violent.
They don’t know Frank Mallory.
★★★★★ “SHAUNA PETERSON IS QUICKLY BECOMING ONE OF MY FAVORITE THRILLER CHARACTERS.”
People have been disappearing from Shadow Bay for years, and no one asks why. When a true-crime podcaster vanishes while investigating a cult tied to the town’s past, Police Chief Shauna Peterson follows a trail most people in Shadow Bay would rather forget.
What begins as a missing-person case reveals a network built on silence, ritual, and control — one that has been hiding in plain sight for years. As Shauna digs deeper, the town closes ranks: witnesses stop talking, old records vanish, and it becomes clear the people behind it have no intention of letting their secrets surface. Because in Shadow Bay, the cult never disappeared — it simply learned how to survive.
BOOK TOUR STOPS
• June 13 — MontCo Book Fest — Skippack, Pennsylvania
• June 20 — Ghosts of Graestone Manor & Midsummer Artisan Market — Gasport, New York
• June 26–28 — Nickel City Comic Con — Buffalo, New York
• July 11–12 — Columbus Book Festival — Columbus, Ohio
• July 18 — Grayslake AuthorFest — Grayslake, Illinois
• August 22 — Book Fair on the Square — Petersburg, Illinois
• September 19 — Haunted Market — Grand Island, New York
• October 24 — West Virginia Book Festival — Charleston, West Virginia
Full schedule here: J.C. Moore Events Page
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