Author Interviews

M.K. Oliver, author of A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage

M.K. Oliver: 'Success in writing ultimately comes from keeping going'

In this interview M.K. Oliver, author of the debut crime thriller A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage, shares his advice for writing dark humour. 'I think it’s the glorious clashing of the banal and domestic with the macabre and criminal that gives the book its energy and humour.

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