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Josephine Damian

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New Rochelle, NY, The United States
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A funny thing happened on her way to writing a serial killer novel.

Josephine took a page from the Thomas Harris playbook–The Silence of the Lambs author shadowed the FBI agent who’d become the Jack Crawford character–and went one better.

She attended a lecture given by a noted profiler–a psychologist and professor who specialized in lust homicide and child predators, and discovered she had an aptitude for murder–investigations, that is.

The writing went on hold.

Studying under the guidance of the profiling professor, Josephine got her master’s in behavioral analysis and interned at the Medical Examiner’s Office. As the assistant to their forensic anthropologist, she saw dead people. She also cooked them. Grim business, and nothing funny ab
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THE GATHERING: from inspiration to publication.

The Gathering

What I remember most about that Sunday morning was the sirens.

Back then I was in grad school studying behavioral analysis while working at the medical examiner’s office. A hectic schedule, but I always dedicated Sundays to fiction writing.

My first thought was, Must be an accident, no surprise since I lived near an intersection famous for people blowing through stop signs, sometimes Read more of this blog post »
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