Tiny, but Topical

I'll post a more fun one later about writing conference etiquette in honor of our members at Sleuthfest this weekend. But here's a timely, if dour, consideration. Novelist Lionel Shriver previously published her own addition to fiction's "school shooting" genre, if such a term applies. She now wonders about the exposure, and therefore, tacit glorification and promulgation of these awful acts in the media, even her own.

The Guardian article is titled These are all copycat crimes

I would far prefer that this new killer remained anonymous. Were all such culprits to remain utterly and eternally unknown, the chips on their shoulders interred with their bones, their grudges for ever private, surely the frequency of these grotesquely gratuitous sprees would plummet. One of the driving forces for most of these killers is not just to be noticed, but, however perversely, to be understood.