Stella Sands is the bestselling author of six true-crime books: Baby-Faced Butchers, The Dating Game Killer, Behind the Mask, Murder at Yale, Wealthy Men Only, and The Good Son. She is also the author of a children’s book, Odyssea, and many educational books, and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning magazine Kids Discover for nineteen years. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including People Magazine Investigates, ABC’s 20/20, and several episodes of Investigation Discovery. Her plays, Lou Passin’ Through, Black-eyed Peas, and E-me, have been produced in Off-Off Broadway theaters in New York City. Sands lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
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August 2026Writer’s Digest | Writing a Stand Alone Book That Could Become a Series
I wrote Wordhunter with absolutely no idea that it would one day become a series.
The two main characters, Maggie and Jackson, had been my constant companions for more years that I care to say. Okay, I’ll say: on and off for eight years. Before they entered my brain, I’d been writing true crime books—as in, real-life serial killers doing truly despicable things—for a decade. Five of those books were published by St. Martin’s and one by Kensington.
October 2019Yoga Shanti | Life After Deaths
Remember those kids’ bounce-back inflatable toys—the ones you hit, they go down, then magically pop back up again, unscathed and poised for the next round? In one, Bozo the Clown’s inane smile remains unflappable and unflinching, in spite of blow-after-blow.