Welcome to a new season of the award-winning Hill Country Authors Podcast. In this podcast, Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with authors who live in and write in and about the Texas Hill Country. Host Tom Fox welcomes author Jeff Kerr to discuss his Texas Hill Country crime fiction series and the release of his new book, Deadly Relic.
Kerr recounts starting as a nonfiction writer after researching Austin history, publishing Austin, Texas: Then and Now (2004) and Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas, then shifting to fiction to avoid constant library work and writing full-time after retiring as a pediatric neurologist in 2022. He explains that he chose a small-town, rural Hill Country setting he knows well and placed his fictional town of Pinyon farther west for a harsher landscape. Deadly Relic centers on the theft of a museum rifle tied to the Alamo and requires research into relic provenance, custody, and black-market sales, with a Phil Collins reference. Kerr describes protagonist Deputy Adam Cash, his writing routine and outlining style, and the series’ challenges and teases the next book, Buried Reckoning.
Key highlights:
- Retirement and Writing Full Time
- Meet Adam Cash
- Building a Long-Running Series
- Writing Routine and Process
- Advice for Aspiring Writers
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