In light of the horrific elementary school shooting in Texas yesterday, I feel compelled to talk about my novel "High School Massacre."
The novel is a thriller. It's a murder mystery. And it begins with a massacre in a high school (hence the title), but it is not about the school shooting and it definitely does not glorify school shootings.
"High School Massacre" is the second novel in my Lincoln Steele series. Steele, the ex-Army Ranger/Special Ops private detective, seeks justice his own way, and that's what this novel is about. It's about discovering the truth and getting justice. The high school shooting is simply the inciting incident (a literary term for setting the plot's conflict in motion, or more simply, gets the story going).
The novel is available on both Bookapy and for free on SOL. Scenes, whether they be shootings or sex, are graphically described. That's how I write. I write what I call cinematically, where I try to bring the reader into the story as if they were watching a movie. It's my version of "show don't tell." I don't tell the reader a fight happened, I show the fight. So the first chapter may be difficult to read after the Texas shooting, but there are clues in it that are important because they come out later in the novel.