Archive - Genius Unbound

The Pizza Crust That Caught the Grim Sleeper

For decades, Lonnie Franklin Jr.

4 hrs ago • Steven W. Booth

Meet the Author: Lee DeVore, From Detective to True Crime Author

Some true crime books are written by authors who research a case years later.

Oct 9 • Steven W. Booth

The Dark History of Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel

Few hotels have accumulated a history quite like the Cecil Hotel.

Oct 7 • Steven W. Booth

A Fairytale Marriage That Became a True Crime Nightmare

When Diane Schmid married Charles Schmid as a teenager in the mid-1960s, she believed she had found her Prince Charming.

Oct 5 • Steven W. Booth

Meet the Author: Patricia Peck

The woman behind Pivotal Moments has spent a lifetime learning to survive, surrender, and say yes anyway.

Oct 1 • Steven W. Booth

September 2026

Not Everything Is Aphantasia

Recently, while reading about another person’s experience with aphantasia, I found myself nodding along at first with little yeps, I totally get that…

Sep 30 • Andrea / Genius Books

Will Johns on Bluesdaddy, Rock-and-Roll Shadows, and Finding Salvation in the Blues

Will Johns grew up surrounded by rock-and-roll history but Bluesdaddy isn’t a story about glamour.

Sep 28 • Steven W. Booth

The Stories Our Fathers Leave Behind

What do we inherit from our fathers besides a name?

Sep 25 • Andrea / Genius Books

The Boy Beneath the House

For more than twenty years, everyone believed 14-year-old Jimmy Gilmore had simply run away.

Sep 21 • Steven W. Booth

Steve McQueen, Bullitt, and a Sneak Peek at What’s Next from Marshall Terrill

Few films are as closely tied to Steve McQueen’s “King of Cool” legacy as 1968’s Bullitt—from the streets of San Francisco to one of the most famous car…

Sep 18 • Steven W. Booth

Before You Publish: Traditional, Self, Hybrid, and the Red Flags Authors Should Know

There Is No One “Right” Way to Publish

Sep 16 • Andrea / Genius Books

Murder in a Sundown Town - Alexandra Kitty

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History

Sep 14 • Steven W. Booth

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