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Barry Lyga

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Barry Lyga is a recovering comic book geek. According to Kirkus, he's also a "YA rebel-author." Somehow, the two just don't seem to go together to him.

When he was a kid, everyone told him that comic books were garbage and would rot his brain, but he had the last laugh. Raised on a steady diet of comics, he worked in the comic book industry for ten years, but now writes full-time because, well, wouldn't you?

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl is his first novel. Unsoul'd is his latest. There are a whole bunch in between, featuring everything from the aftermath of child abuse to pre-teens with superpowers to serial killers. He clearly does not know how to stick to one subject.
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I did a TON of research before writing the book -- everything from serial killer pathology to LEO tactics to the history …more
Hi! Thanks for your question.

I did a TON of research before writing the book -- everything from serial killer pathology to LEO tactics to the history of serial murder. I was just steeped in this stuff and so, honestly, it wasn't difficult or taxing at all. I just sort of channeled it all.

If I have any gift as an author, it's this: I am really, really good at pretending to be really, really bad people. So that's what I used for this. I tried to approach Billy in particular without judgement. Because he wouldn't judge himself. He thinks what he does is both good and necessary, so I just turned off that inner voice that says, "You can't do that!!!" and let it ride.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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From My Hard Drive: “Round and Round”

Decades ago, in the halcyon days of the 1980s, I was obsessed with the Legion of Super-Heroes…and Swamp Thing. I had been invited to join a fanzine dedicated to the Legion and decided to blend my interests. The result was the short story below, which I recently unearthed from an old scan on my hard drive. Other than cleaning up some typos, I’ve not changed a word from the original. Please be

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Well, part of it might have been that when I wrote that book about a dead baby, I was a new father! So I was writing about that tragedy while my little daughter slept in a bassinet next to me. It made it very raw and real for me.

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“You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.”
Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

“See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event -- it's a process. Forgiveness happens while you're asleep, while you're dreaming, while you're inline at the coffee shop, while you're showering, eating, farting, jerking off. It happens in the back of your mind, and then one day you realize that you don't hate the person anymore, that your anger has gone away somewhere. And you understand. You've forgiven them. You don't know how or why. It sneaked up on you. It happened in the small spaces between thoughts and in the seconds between ideas and blinks. That's where forgiveness happens. Because anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth. At least, that's what I hope.”
Barry Lyga, Boy Toy

“This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.”
Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

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