{"id":1332,"date":"2016-02-20T05:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T10:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2016-02-20T05:40:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T10:40:24","slug":"tim-dorsey-and-the-coconut-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Tim Dorsey and the coconut cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tim<\/a> Coconut Cowboy<\/em> is the 19th installment of New York Times Bestseller Tim Dorsey<\/a>\u2019s serial killer series, but don\u2019t let that genre label fool you. Dorsey’s lethal central character,\u00a0Serge A. Storms, prefers to be called a “sequential killer.”\u00a0Where serial killers are \u201csick and compulsive,\u201d sequential killers, like Serge, never intended to kill anybody, but is nearly forced to do so as \u201cjerks cross his path.\u201d According to Dorsey, \u201c[Serge] doesn\u2019t phone it in\u201d when committing his murders, but rather acts as a \u201cMacGyver of death. He\u2019s able to pull together various things that are at hand,\u201d Dorsey says.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Storms’ murders are] some Rube Goldberg contraption that\u2019s fitting, either for the crime or [it] has something to\u00a0do with Florida or the location,\u201d Dorsey explains. The geographic setting of the novels, always in Florida, provides natural inspiration for Dorsey. He often finds himself attracted to Internet headlines of bizarre crimes in the region. \u201cYou keep thinking it can\u2019t get weirder,\u201d Dorsey says, \u201cbut it continues to get stranger and with greater frequency.\u201d His latest favorite story features a disgruntled fast food customer tossing an alligator <\/a>through the drive-thru window at a Wendy\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n

Dorsey, an adamant believer in extensive book tours, enjoys taking in the specifics of small towns he discovers in his travels. These hidden treasures often make it into the book, like when Serge and a friend take a detour in Greenville to visit Ray Charles\u2019 childhood home and a statue in the town square. \u201cIn addition to [Serge] being intelligent,\u201d Dorsey explains, \u201che is encyclopedic about Florida and has this childhood enthusiasm [about the state]\u201d For Dorsey, the immense number of strange locations in the state serve as the perfect backdrop for his absurd stories.<\/p>\n

Though his books consistently sell, Dorsey has branched out his brand into other fields, including hot sauce. During a book fair, Dorsey made promotional t-shirts with fake hot sauce bottles printed on the back. After several fans asked how to purchase the hot sauce, Dorsey decided to make the spicy condiment a reality. The hot sauce, each bottle individually signed by Dorsey himself, is now available in three flavors. He also has merchandised hats, t-shirts, and a flask. And as Dorsey astutely points out, \u201cFaulkner didn\u2019t have this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Dorsey will be at the Bexley Library on March 1st<\/a>\u00a0promoting Coconut Cowboy, which is now available at bookstores nationwide.<\/p>\n

-Andy Ross<\/p>\n

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Coconut Cowboy is the 19th installment of New York Times Bestseller Tim Dorsey\u2019s serial killer series, but don\u2019t let that genre label fool you. Dorsey’s lethal central character,\u00a0Serge A. Storms, prefers to be called a “sequential killer.”\u00a0Where serial killers are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,14],"tags":[326,327,328,325],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-new-books","category-original-craft-productions","tag-coconut-cowboy","tag-new-york-times-bestseller","tag-serge-storms","tag-tim-dorsey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}