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Therapy, Social Work, and Murder
That's the title of a panel I'll be moderating next week at Bouchercon, the huge annual convention of mystery fans, held this year in Indianapolis. Only the panel title puts Murder first!
In my "other hat," I'm a mystery writer, and my new book, DEATH WILL HELP YOU LEAVE HIM, will be in stores the day after Columbus Day. It's the second in my series featuring recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler. The first was DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER. I've used my 25 years experience as a clinical social worker and addictions therapist and program director in novels and short stories that are a lot more fun to write than process recordings, treatment plans, and articles for professional journals. There's a little social work, a fair amount of therapy, and plenty of alcoholism and codependency in murder mysteries. Among my fellow panelists are Margaret Fenton, a child welfare social worker whose protagonist, in the same kind of agency as her real life job, gets caught up in investigating the death of a two-year-old client; and Roberta Isleib, a clinical psychologist whose series protagonist is "two hats" are clinical psychologist and advice columnist.
Bouchercon, which takes place in a different city each year and draws more than a thousand mystery readers plus four hundred or so authors, is a must for mystery writers. Last year, considering my experience in the alcoholism field, they put me on "the booze panel." The topic was Alcohol in Crime Fiction. It would have been fine, except that the moderator knocked back half a bottle of gin in the course of the panel: from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. They offered me a place on the booze panel again this year, but I declined. I'm much more comfortable with therapy, social work, and murder.
In my "other hat," I'm a mystery writer, and my new book, DEATH WILL HELP YOU LEAVE HIM, will be in stores the day after Columbus Day. It's the second in my series featuring recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler. The first was DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER. I've used my 25 years experience as a clinical social worker and addictions therapist and program director in novels and short stories that are a lot more fun to write than process recordings, treatment plans, and articles for professional journals. There's a little social work, a fair amount of therapy, and plenty of alcoholism and codependency in murder mysteries. Among my fellow panelists are Margaret Fenton, a child welfare social worker whose protagonist, in the same kind of agency as her real life job, gets caught up in investigating the death of a two-year-old client; and Roberta Isleib, a clinical psychologist whose series protagonist is "two hats" are clinical psychologist and advice columnist.
Bouchercon, which takes place in a different city each year and draws more than a thousand mystery readers plus four hundred or so authors, is a must for mystery writers. Last year, considering my experience in the alcoholism field, they put me on "the booze panel." The topic was Alcohol in Crime Fiction. It would have been fine, except that the moderator knocked back half a bottle of gin in the course of the panel: from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. They offered me a place on the booze panel again this year, but I declined. I'm much more comfortable with therapy, social work, and murder.
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Comment by Kimberly L Brownridge, LPC, NCC on November 6, 2009 at 1:44am
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Wow! I love reading murder mysteries. I definately want to check out your work.
~Kim
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