As, thankfully, my recent life/med stress ended early (quick - where's a piece of wood to knock on?), that means our temporary hiatus is ending a week early too! Editing this lively episode yesterday made me laugh multiple times. I figured that right now laughter is something we all could use in this grim world as of late so I wanted to deliver this conversation to you ASAP to hopefully brighten your day.

Kind, witty, and wildly gifted, my good friend Nikki Dolson is a prolific crime writer whose work has been published in such well-respected places as Shotgun Honey, Tough, ThugLit, and Bartleby Snopes. The author of what she affectionately calls "a novelish thing" - the book All Things Violent - Nikki has also released a short story collection entitled Love and Other Criminal Behavior. And last fall, one of her outstanding pieces appeared in the prestigious Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories anthology of 2021, edited by Alafair Burke and Steph Cha. 

A delightful film buff who has excellent taste in movies (and men!), and is also quite the TV reenactor and movie trivia game player, I always have a ball talking to Nikki. And this witty, candid, free-flowing conversation, which covers women in the crime films The Last Seduction, Bound, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Widows, and I'm Your Woman (plus Michael Mann's Thief and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive) was no exception to that rule. In fact, my favorite thing about this episode is that because Nikki is one of my very best friends, you're getting a different side of both of us than you would in other episodes, and you're hearing us delve into something we're truly, truly passionate about. Enjoy!

Note: Over the weekend, I looked up the analytics for the podcast for a report I needed to submit and was shocked to discover that there's been well over 50K downloads of Watch With Jen. I want to thank you so much for listening and for your support and a huge debt of gratitude is owed to the tremendous guests and colleagues who are kind enough to share their time and wisdom with me that make the show work so well!

Pictured below: Nikki's face when I started referencing the fence sex scene in The Last Seduction.

Referenced & Related:

Nikki Dolson on Twitter

Nikki's Books:  All Things Violent, Love & Other Criminal Behavior, Best American Mystery & Suspense 2021, & Back Road Bobby & His Friends  (affiliate ad links)

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