Hey guys, just a quick update on what I've been doing. Still editing Waves Crash and Seas Split, and we're winding down with Shinobi Conspiracy at Izu Harbor.
I recently conducted an interview with the guys over at www.indieauthorland.com, concerning my latest book Psycho Save Us. Here's an excerpt from that interview:
INTERVIEWER: Tell us a little bit about Psycho Save Us.
HUSKINS: Psycho Save Us is a book I’ve been working on for quite some time, maybe even since high school. In a nutshell, two small black girls with a gift for telepathy are abducted off the streets of Atlanta by a ruthless ring of traffickers and internet child pornographers, and their only hope is making remote contact with a man named Spencer Pelletier, who is a career criminal recently escaped from Leavenworth Penitentiary, and who for mysterious reasons can detect their telepathic link.
The inspiration comes from some true events. In high school, I saw a story about two young black girls that were abducted near Atlanta, and I remember hearing from black community leaders how blacks aren’t covered in the media nearly as much as whites when they go missing. In recent years, I’ve seen all of this on TV, we all have, and you can tell that it’s true, at least to some degree.
Couple that with my fascination with psychology and, perhaps one of the most controversial parts of psychology, the study of psychopaths. The story began to form in my head, and really crystallized when I read about this massive international internet child pornography ring that Interpol busted up about two years ago. The members were all over the globe—Germany, United States, Britain, parts of Asia, everywhere. It was vast, and what these people were doing defied imagination: for instance, the more they made children cry while being tortured and raped, the higher “rank” they got on their secret porn website, and thus their status was increased amongst the group and they had the “privilege” of accessing more videos of children being tortured. Truly horrific stuff, the kind of stuff you don’t read about anywhere in any fiction.
I’m also attracted to discussions about good and evil, the real discussions that matter, that dissect and analyze, and I thought, “If psychopaths are real, and one believed in God, then wouldn’t one have to believe that even psychopaths were a part of God’s plan?” The implications of that are actually quite terrifying, if you think about it.
All of these elements were kind of swirling around in my head, like ingredients looking for a pot to jump in. So, I combined them, and Psycho Save Us was the result.
Read the whole interview here: http://indieauthorland.com/2012/11/16/interview-with-chad-huskins-author-of-psycho-save-us/
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