She Kills Me
SELLING POINTS
THE TRUE STORIES OF HISTORY'S DEADLIEST WOMEN
TRUE CRIME CROSSOVER APPEAL: In recent years, true
BY JENNIFER WRIGHT
A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure—rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat
crime has become even more mainstream in various forms of media, from podcasts like Serial and My Favorite Murder, to shows like Netflix's Making a Murderer. UNIQUE LAYOUT: Instead of featuring these women in portraiture, like traditional female–driven collections, facts and details from each story are incorporated into the illustrations to create a design that gives the feel of case files. SUCCESSFUL CATEGORY: Sitting squarely in the middle of feminism and pop culture, She Kills Me follows in the footsteps of many bestselling anthologies, such as Rad Women Worldwide and Bygone Badass Broads, and has the potential for breakout success as well. DIVERSE COLLECTION OF
In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art
STORIES: This collection of
made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely
stories runs the gamut on the
portrayed as predators. They’re the prey. This common dynamic is one of the reasons that women are so
meaning of the word
enthralled by female murderers. They do the things that women aren’t supposed to do and live the lives
murderer, from killers in the
that women aren’t supposed to want: lives that are impulsive and angry and messy and inconvenient.
most brutal sense to other
Maybe we feel bad about loving them, but we eat it up just the same. Residing squarely in the middle of
stories that are much more
a Venn diagram of feminism and true crime, She Kills Me tells the story of 40 women who murdered out
nuanced, and even to acts of
of necessity, fear, revenge, and even for pleasure.
heroism.
Jennifer Wright is the political editor at large for HarpersBazaar.com, as well as a regular
SPECIFICATIONS
contributor to the New York Post, reporting on millennial issues. She has written for many
* 40 color illustrations
publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post,McSweeny’s, The New
* 176 pages
Yorker, and Glamour.
* WIDTH: 6" - 152mm * HEIGHT: 9" - 229mm * Hardcover POB PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2021 TRUE CRIME, WOMEN'S HISTORY, HISTORY ISBN 978-1-4197-4846-2 US $19.99
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