He said reading Stephen King’s It caused him to keep the lights on inside his house for three days. He said what he likes about the genre is “building tension” and “throwing everyday characters into an extraordinary situation to see how they would react.”

“Originally I was a science fiction fan,” he said, adding that “horror really is the only genre that’s emotion-based there’s a reaction to it.” He decided to go back to Emerson College for his MFA, and settled on writing horror and thriller stories after graduating in 2019. “About five years ago, I had a series of unfortunate medical events,” Wood said, and “realized I couldn’t do what I used to do.” So he decided he had to make a career switch.Īs a young person, Wood said he always enjoyed writing stories using crayons on paper. He grew up in New York, and as a financial services consultant, has traveled to about 80 countries around the world. Wood did not begin his career as a writer. But Jeannine discovers more than she bargained for when she uncovers a family history of dark voodoo magic and an unholy alliance with an ancient evil Haitian god.” Twelve years after Katrina, Jeannine is a new attorney who returns to New Orleans to save her old friend Curtis Jones-now a local thief and trafficker of stolen goods-after he is arrested for the murder of Jeannine＊s captors, whose bodies have recently been found. In the aftermath of the storm, she believed she’d been saved, but soon found herself held hostage and sexually exploited, rescued months later by sheriff＊s deputy Curtis Jones. Wood just released his newest novel, Bayou Whispers, and if supernatural thrillers are your style, this book is for you.Īccording to the book’s description, it’s “the story of no-nonsense New Orleans native, Jeannine LaRue, the sole survivor of her family after the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina. But Jeannine discovers more than she bargained for when she uncovers a family history of dark voodoo magic and an unholy alliance with an ancient evil Haitian god.', Twelve years after Katrina, Jeannine is a new attorney who returns to New Orleans to save her old friend Curtis Jones-now a local thief and trafficker of stolen goods-after he is arrested for the murder of Jeannine's captors, whose bodies have recently been found. In the aftermath of the storm, she believed she'd been saved, but soon found herself held hostage and sexually exploited, rescued months later by sheriff's deputy Curtis Jones. Wood is the story of no-nonsense New Orleans native, Jeannine LaRue, the sole survivor of her family after the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina.

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Bayou Whispers by R.B. Wood