Episode 2: Eliza Jane Brazier and how to kill someone quickly
About the podcast
Scared Lit-less is the podcast for readers, writers, and other fans of the crime genre. Hosted by a psychological thriller author, the podcast will feature:
Thoughts about writing and telling stories in this genre
Recommendations for new books, documentaries, movies, podcasts, and other media
Interviews with writers of crime, thrillers, mysteries, and suspense
Trivia games and other fun shenanigans
Scared Lit-less is hosted by Amy Suiter Clarke, author of the novel Girl, 11 about a true crime podcast host obsessively trying to solve the cold case of Minnesota’s most notorious serial killer, whose victims were each a year younger than the last.
Quick five with a killer
In this segment, I interview a “killer” aka an author who writes stories that demand killing a lot of characters.
This episode features Eliza Jane Brazier, author of the debut adult psychological suspense novel If I Disappear. Eliza is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is developing If I Disappear for television.
You can order your copy here.
Author or killer?
Author Bethany C. Morrow and I quiz each other with trivia facts we’ve gathered about a person who is either an author or a murderer. Can you guess?
Bethany C Morrow is an Indie Bestselling author who writes for adult and young adult audiences, in genres ranging from speculative literary to contemporary fantasy to historical. She is author of the novels Mem and A Song Below Water, and editor/contributor to the young adult anthology Take the Mic, which was the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award winner. Her work has been chosen as Indies Introduce and Indie Next picks, and featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA TODAY's list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.
Her website is www.bethanycmorrow.com.
A nervous rec
In this episode, Amy recommended:
You’re Wrong About: Using a combination of excellent research, journalistic integrity, and dry humor, hosts Michael Hobbs and Sarah Marshall use each episode to talk about the historical events, global stories, and urban legends we think we understand—and tell us what aspects we actually got wrong.
American Murder: The Family Next Door: The Watts Family murders shocked the world a couple years ago, and this documentary delves into the story. The film weaves between the months leading up to the murders and the days after as Christopher Watts presented himself as clueless and innocent.
The Nancys: Nancy Drew for grownups! RWR McDonald’s charming debut tells the story of Tippy Chan, a young girl in New Zealand who’s being taken care of by her uncle and his boyfriend while her mother is away on holidays. When her teacher is murdered, Tippy convinces her uncle to harness their mutual love of Nancy Drew mysteries and help solve the case.