Joe McKinney
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Homicide Detective |
| Location | Helotes, Texas |
| Introduction | I'm a homicide detective for the San Antonio Police Department. When I'm not solving murders, I spend my time writing horror, science fiction, and mystery stories. My first novel was Dead City (Kensington Press, 2006), an apocalyptic tale of zombies and survival horror. I'm also the author of Quarantined (LBF Books, 2009), a science fiction disaster story based on my training and experience as a disaster mitigation expert with the San Antonio Police Department, and a collection of three horror and science fiction novellas entitled Peacekeepers (Magus Press, 2009). I have a Master’s Degree in English Literature from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Before joining the Homicide Division as a detective, I worked on the San Antonio Police Department’s Critical Incident Management Team, where I received training in dealing with a variety of natural and manmade disasters, such as floods, fires, and train wrecks, and that training figures prominently in my fiction. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, collecting pulp fiction magazines from the 30s 40s and 50s, cooking, vintage horror movies, classic rock, touring the Texas Hill Country with my family. |
| Favorite Movies | The Shining, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Apocalypse Now, Night of the Living Dead, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Fort Apache The Bronx, The New Centurions, and many, many others. |
| Favorite Music | Classic rock |
| Favorite Books | Tons and tons. I love horror, crime fiction, and science fiction, plus the occassional well-written bit of contemporary fiction, biography, and history piece. |
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