Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
We are Victoria and Hyperion Knight–little sister and big brother. We grew up during the booming, upbeat, hair-band decade of the 1980s, and a few years out of high school we got investigated by the FBI. We can’t blame them, they had never met the likes of us before…
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Damnable Fun
Revenge is a Dish Best Served in Cold Hard Cash
This bank-heist story was inspired by the following true event:
Our teenaged years consisted of one hair-brained petty-criminal scheme after another. Amazingly, we were never arrested, but our exploits garnered a lot of attention from law enforcement. When we were barely out of your teens, Hyperion had established himself as a professional concert pianist. Meanwhile, Victoria and her then boyfriend (now husband) (who was also her brother’s best friend) were still trying to make their way in the world. By coincidence, the local bank (where said boyfriend worked as a teller) was burglarized. This being such a small town, there weren’t that many suspects for what was clearly an inside job. So, for many weeks, the FBI Special Agent in charge of the investigation only had eyes for us. The FBI followed us, interrogated our parents, and gave us lie-detector tests. We were innocent but we sure wished we’d been clever enough to burglarize that bank. Now, because the feds spent so much time focused on us, the crime remains the largest unsolved bank burglary in Northern California. Even though we’ll never know who actually perpetrated the crime, it loomed so large in our imaginations that, years later, we still feel compelled to tell the story of how we would have done the heist if it had been us. And that is what inspired this fun bank-heist book about getting the old gang together for our biggest “hit” yet.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Being a brother and sister who write together is probably pretty unusual in and of itself. We each contributed to the book, talked extensively about plot twist ideas, and had to fit our conferences in around Hyperion’s busy traveling schedule as a concert pianist.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
We love true crime novels. The weirder the better!
What are you working on now?
We have a sequel to Damnable Fun coming up, all about the next heist pulled by our gang. Victoria is also working on a collection of short stories about living in Las Vegas–a place that has fascinated her since childhood.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
For us, Awesome Gang has been a big help as well as Author Ad Network. We have worked with BookSends, Buckbooks, BKnights, and Bookbub as well.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
We’re still new authors ourselves, so all we can say just keep on writing and letting those creative juices flow. Hopefully you have a rich well of memories from your “glory days” like we do to fuel your creativity.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Fitting in” is for suckers!
What are you reading now?
A lot of upper YA novels. We hadn’t planned for our book to fit into that genre, but after it was written, it was clearly about kids just out of high school, so we have had success marketing it to that genre and now we’re trying to familiarize ourselves with the genre of YA crime novels.
What’s next for you as a writer?
We’re still writing and collaborating and will have a sequel to Damnable Fun out soon!
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