Grim Talk - A Mortal Vengeance Podcast -

Mortal Vengeance author Alejandro Torres De la Rocha sits down with a superfan and a host who hasn't read the books to reveal his wildly unexpected influences: Kevin Williamson, Joss Whedon, Andy Cohen, Ryan Murphy, and RuPaul. No Stephen King. No Shirley Jackson. Just television, trauma, and a Dominican mother scarier than any horror villain. He also challenges Donna Tartt to meet him outside...

Before the awards. Before the reviews. Before the Grim Cojuelo had a name. In Episode 02 of Grim Talk, Alejandro Torres De la Rocha goes all the way back — to 1999, to a bedroom stripped of every distraction, to a fifteen-year-old with too much anger and nowhere to put it except a page. The first line he wrote that year is still in the book, word for word, twenty-five years later. Twelve years of...

Every debut has a story. This one starts with a Literary Titan Gold Book Award, a Dante Rossetti shortlist, and three separate reviewers — independently, without coordinating — all landing on the same two words: fresh new voice. In Episode 01 of Grim Talk, Alejandro Torres De la Rocha sits down to respond. Where the Grim Cojuelo came from and why a carnival trickster became a hunter of the guilty....