by JHowatt | Nov 30, 2023 | Crime Writing
The Power of a Hunch: Don’t Give up on a Disease or a Dream On October 1, 2021, I read an article in the Washington Post by Carolyn Y. Johnson titled: A Scientific Hunch. Then Silence. Until the World Needed a Lifesaving Vaccine.” I pulled the article closer and... 
by JHowatt | Nov 17, 2023 | Crime Writing
The Wise Person Spoke Augusta State University. Augusta, Georgia. Counseling Center, May 1999. I stashed my purse on the floor and opened my notebook prepared to write notes on Dr. Bonnie Blanton’s lecture: Career Development Theory and Practice. Outside, the first... 
by JHowatt | Sep 29, 2023 | Crime Writing
Dining with a Serial Killer? Murder’s on the Menu. In my last blog post, I intentionally put tables as the story’s focus. Why would an author decide to put tables as the centerpiece of a post about which must be the most unappetizing genre: true crime? The... 
by JHowatt | Aug 25, 2023 | Crime Writing
Bill Bonin: “An Arch Evil Person” or Just an Ordinary- Guy? August 22, 2023. An article in Wikipedia written by a prosecutor at his first trial described Bill Bonin as “The most arch-evil person who ever existed.” (Freeway Killer’s Story: Ghastly Tale of Horror. The... 
by JHowatt | Aug 4, 2023 | Crime Writing
William George Bonin: Just an Ordinary Guy July 27, 2023. A casual dinner party for my tennis friends seemed an unlikely place to begin my true crime series, “The Scariest Thing About Serial Killers.” But that’s how it happened. All of my guests had left but one – a... 
by JHowatt | Mar 29, 2023 | Crime Writing
From a Turtle Poem to True Crime: A Writer’s Journey March 26, 2023. My love affair with books began before I could walk. The best part of the day was when my father would read to me. He’d help me turn the pages of a cloth book with buttons to button, shoelaces to...