Delilah S. Dawson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Phasma, as well as Star Wars Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, Mine, the Hit series, the Blud series, the creator-owned comics Ladycastle, Sparrowhawk, and Star Pig, and the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen). With Kevin Hearne, she co-writes The Tales of Pell. She lives in Georgia with her family.
Dawson's new thriller is The Violence.
At CrimeReads the author tagged four horror books featuring artists. One title on the list:
[S]ome artists are not so self-aware. In Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester, an artist mother and her teen daughter are both caughtRead about another entry on the list.up in the cycle of the same serial killer, known only as the Cur because his victims are found with bite-riddled thighs. While the daughter struggles with the opposing urges to fit in and act out, her mother creates beautiful but eerie sculptures while in a trancelike state—artworks somehow related to the tragedies in her past that she can’t quite remember. Personally, as someone who has painted with my own blood, I’m always here for the admixture of female rage and art.
--Marshal Zeringue
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