Barry Lyga's "Blood of My Blood," the movie

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My series I Hunt Killers (the final book of which, Blood of My Blood, just came out and why are you wasting time reading this blog — go buy it!) probably won’t be a movie…but it might be a TV show. The fine folks at WBTV snapped it up a few years ago, so there’s a chance my characters might be coming to a small screen near you.

Since word broke of WB’s interest, I’ve been asked repeatedly: Who do you see playing Jazz? And Connie? And Howie? And G. William? And the guy at the coffee shop eating a cruller?

The sad, sad answer is this: Beats me.

I guess I missed the day in Author School when they taught us how to answer these questions because I don’t have the slightest idea who should play anyone in my series. Honestly.

Well, not honestly. There’s one exception.

Billy Dent.

For those of you who haven’t read the series, Billy is the ur-evil, the antagonist from hell. He’s one of the world’s most notorious serial killers, having murdered 123 people in horrible fashion. He’s sort of like a mash-up of Lex Luthor and Ted Bundy — utterly brilliant, completely sociopathic, and charming in that aw-shucks, hey-darlin’ redneck way.

He’s evil incarnate and so he should totally be played by…Brian...[read on]

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