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Interview with Literary Titan

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On April 3, 2025, Literary Titan featured an interview with me entitled “Chaos and Fury,” which delves into the complexities behind my novel *When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed*. In this Q&A, I share details about what led me to write a story steeped in themes of obsession, power dynamics, and the tumultuous nature of the creative process. I also reflect on how personal experiences and emotional truths informed my characters, as well as my approach to embracing critical feedback as a tool for growth.

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Reedsy Discovery Reviews ‘When the Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed’

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In the 4-star review of the novel ‘When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed,’ Karen Siddall for Reedsy Discovery, a platform dedicated to reviewing new independent books, writes: “The plot is well-paced, with an absolute gem of an opening that guaranteed my continued reading. Dominic is an engaging character, and I couldn’t look away as he immediately began making a series of unfortunate behavioral choices and what he experienced once on set. The behind-the-scenes glimpses of film creation were interesting, and the discussions around the practical aspects, especially the safety concerns for those involved, were fascinating. I recommend WHEN THE ACTOR INSPIRED CHAOS AND BLOODSHED to readers interested in tales of filmmaking gone awry.”

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Review of When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed in Literary Titan

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In its 5-star review of the novel When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed, Literary Titan, a prominent U.S.-based literary publication, writes: “Litchfield knows how to throw you into a scene. The opening prologue, where a film shoot goes violently sideways, hits hard. Bullets flying, blood spraying, a screaming film exec belly-flopping for cover. It reads like some grainy ’90s action flick at 2 a.m. on cable. That’s the vibe throughout the novel: high tension, slapstick disaster, and sharp edges everywhere. Dominic, caught in the madness, isn’t exactly likable, but he is interesting. He’s the kind of mess you want to keep watching, even when he’s making every wrong choice.”

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Fading Ink

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I started writing for newspapers over thirty years ago, and my byline was Nick Litchfield. Dozens of articles and thousands of copies landed on doorsteps nationwide. I kept at it for years, and the way newspapers were syndicated, articles were fed into different sister papers across neighboring towns and counties. Some were weeklies, some dailies.

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The Star newspaper reviews When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed

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My second novel, When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed, is scheduled for release on April 1st. Today, The Star, sometimes known as the Sheffield Star, carried a wonderful review of the novel. “Litchfield’s intense and topical drama sizzles like charred meat over hot coals, eventually erupting into a massive blaze of mesmerising chaos,” book critic Pam Norfolk writes. “Amidst the thrills and spills, readers encounter a cast of well-defined characters whose actions and voices manage to rise above the risible film script. Fans of edge-of-the-seat thrillers filled with exotic settings, non-stop action, and a cast of ambitious artistes battling fears, egos, insecurities, and daily disasters, will relish Nicholas Litchfield’s pulse-pounding novel, When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed.”

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Fools Walk In / So Wicked My Love by Bruno Fischer with an introduction by Nicholas Litchfield

Bruno Fischer’s Wicked Fools

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This month, Stark House Press reissued two of Fischer’s paperback originals from the Fifties—Fools Walk In, published in 1951, and So Wicked, My Love, from 1954. The novels are essentially two variations on a theme. The first is a bizarre and twisty drama wherein a college professor gets involved with a gang of thieves, and the latter is a powerful and extremely well-written love story with darkness and villainy at its core. My essay, “Fischer’s Foolish Teacher and the Wicked Redhead,” introduces the collection.

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Review of Bandit Heaven by Tom Clavin

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In Bandit Heaven, published by St. Martin’s Press last month, New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin offers an interesting analysis of three secluded hideouts nestled in Wyoming and Utah that for many decades provided a place of refuge and protection for hordes of robbers, killers, and fugitives. These hangouts—Robbers Roost, Brown’s Hole, and Hole-in-the-Wall—sufficiently

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Silent Light by Mark Jacobs

Litchfield reviews Silent Light by Mark Jacobs for the Colorado Review

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My review of Mark Jacobs’ literary fiction novel Silent Light was published this week in the Colorado Review. Here is a snippet: “In this epic journey through brutalized, fractured communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, award-winning writer Mark Jacobs presents an intense and poignant novel of vulnerable outsiders at the peripheries of hell navigating inter-ethnic quarrels,

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A Séance for Wicked King Death by Coy Hall

Review of A Séance for Wicked King Death by Coy Hall

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Coy Hall’s largely overlooked series opener, A Séance for Wicked King Death, published by Shotgun Honey Books last November, is an engrossing 1950s crime story that flaunts scrupulously distilled prose and memorable rogues. Set in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia, it introduces Royce Pembrook, a smart, articulate ex-con with a talent for deception. A

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