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My heart is a chainsaw book6/26/2023 ![]() Jones started writing My Heart Is a Chainsaw, which chronicles the story of a small lakeside town in Idaho where a string of mass murders is taking place, back in 2013. If a novel isn’t working in two or three months, I throw it away and say it must not be working at some level I can’t access.” “This is absolutely the longest it’s ever taken me to get a novel complete. “I’ve never lived with a novel for eight years,” he says. But My Heart Is a Chainsaw took ten times as long. Jones usually takes six weeks to write the first draft of one of his novels, then another few months to finalize it. Now the University of Colorado Boulder professor has released his next novel, his most ambitious work to date: My Heart Is a Chainsaw. Although Stephen Graham Jones has been writing terrifying stories for the past two decades, he gained enormous attention for his 2020 book, The Only Good Indians. ![]()
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