May Cobb, author of "The Hunting Wives"

Published: June 6, 2021, 2:41 p.m.

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www.maycobb.com/

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My upcoming thriller, THE HUNTING WIVES, will be released from Berkley/Penguin Random House in May 2021.
\\nMy debut thriller, BIG WOODS, won multiple awards and was released summer 2018.

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I\'m currently finishing a book about the late, jazz great, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a project which has been in the works for twenty years. Kirk was a human phenomenon\\u2014a multi-instrumentalist who was best known for his miraculous ability to play three saxophones simultaneously. During his brief life, he defied staggering odds\\u2014from blindness, to prejudice, to a paralyzing stroke\\u2014in order to play the music that came to him through dreams. His story is what made me want to become a writer.

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I grew up in the piney woods of East Texas where both THE HUNTING WIVES and BIG WOODS are set. After college, I moved to San Francisco where I studied Victorian Literature for my Master\'s, and gravitated towards that era\'s detective novels, known as "sensation novels", such as Wilke Collins\' THE WOMAN IN WHITE.
\\nI then lived in Los Angeles for a few years where I worked for filmmaker/writer Ron Shelton and his wife, the actress Lolita Davidovich

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I currently live in Austin, Texas, with my husband and son where we enjoy traipsing around the area\\u2019s many beautiful parks. I also enjoy napping, staring into space, making to-do lists for my to-do lists, shoveling cookies down my throat when I\'m writing a particularly difficult scene (and even when I\'m not), wearing my PJ\\u2019s as often as I can get away with and collapsing into bed at the end of a day with a great book.

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My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Austin Monthly, and Edible Austin.
\\nMy proudest achievement remains clinching 1st place in the UIL competition for Personal Writing when I was in the 4th grade.

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