A fiction writer creates a teenage psychotic killer in a novel, a savage barbarian whose primitive rampages result in a state prison life sentence. Five years later, in an updated reissue of that original novel, the demented killer breaks out and escapes.

A few months later the novelist publicly announces in Facebook, X and YouTube videos that the crazed killer has escaped from prison. This be-on-the-lookout bulletin constitutes a surprising spoiler for anyone who has not read the updated book.

The reclusive fiction writer is also a well-known successful journalist who breaks this shocking news as if the make-believe escaped convict from the novel is a real person, a living, breathing, merciless human maniac now on the loose and looking for revenge, particularly on people who have not read the sick, absurd novel that introduces him to the world.

The author shares in his unhinged video how the demented killer has written him a letter demanding that people buy and read the book, or else. The author provides his own personal website address at  https://theoutlawcorbett.com/ where people can order a signed copy at a special low price.

The novelist expects the madman to contact him again, maybe with fresh blood on his hands.

Has the author lost his mind? Does the novelist truly believe his imagined character has come to life? Has frustration with diminishing numbers of readers finally caused the novelist to go insane? Or is the novelist merely pushing the edges of his personal, original creativity that blurs contemporary reality and makes all fiction true?

You decide.

Either way I urge you to lock the doors. Maybe the writer is unbalanced. And maybe the psycho killer is out there looking in your bedroom window when the lights go out at night.

I’d buy and read the book if I were you.

Better be safe than sorry.