Donald Fidler’s Psychological Art Thriller “Dangerous Art” was Exhibited at the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023

For many publishers across Ibero-America, South America, the Guadalajara International Book Fair, also known as the Feria Internacíonal del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL), is an opportunity to not only come together to discuss the future of literature for the continent. It is also a chance to encounter other publishers from across the world and learn how their ideas could be incorporated.

The same applies to the countless authors that all parties represented. So, for Donald Fidler, a scriptwriter and author with a deep passion for the arts, it’s a timely chance to expand his reading audience.

Fidler is the mind behind “Dangerous Art,” a serial murder thriller that is also interwoven with themes pertaining to mental health and the arts. It draws upon his experience of having written scripts for various plays that increase awareness of psychological illnesses.

The novel’s story follows a handful of key characters all involved in a series of murders that left the bodies of several young men in New York City Parks. The first is Bram, a teenage boy whose mother has been selling to a most eccentric woman in her thirties. The second is Captain Francine Boult, the head of the homicide squad looking into the case. And lastly, there is the murderess herself, whose chapters present her bizarre, quasi-religious psyche as she seeks signs and wonders in depictions of St. Michael the Archangel.

Fidler was able to exhibit this colorful mystery at the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023 with the help of ReadersMagnet, a book marketing and self-publishing company. This allowed plenty of visitors to check it out and see just how its characters’ various actions, investigations, and obsessions come together into the plot and reveal more than a few insights into the human psyche.

“Dangerous Art” by Donald Fidler is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Updates on Fidler’s future books can also be found on his website at https://dcfidler.com/.

“Dangerous Art”
Author: Donald Fidler
Published date: May 25, 2023
Publisher: DCFidler Publishing
Genre: Mystery

Author’s Biography
A native of the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains, DC Fidler has combined a career in academic psychiatry and cultural psychiatry with a lifetime of playwriting, acting, directing, composing music, and teaching creative writing and the dramatic arts.

He studied theatre, writing, medicine, and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served on the faculty. He later served on the faculty at West Virginia University and also practiced psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand.

He began his acting career in outdoor dramas, summer stock theatre, and local films and television at age ten. He has written scripts and composed music for over fifty medical educational videos and his plays have been produced in community theatres, at universities, and in professional theatres, often being used for raising awareness of mental health issues. His play Boogieban, won the 2018 Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Premier of a New Play and moved onward in 2019 to be produced in St. Louis, Chicago, and Off-Broadway in NYC.

He consulted and appeared in educational productions for HBO, ABC, and PBS and performed in stage plays including: “Hope is the Thing with Feathers,” “Night of January 16th,” “Thieves’ Carnival,” “Blood Wedding,” “Our Town,” “A Life in the Theatre,” and “Fool for Love.” DC Fidler is an active member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Charlotte Writers’ Club.

Fidler previously chaired the Video Committee for the American Psychiatric Association and served as President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, promoting the use of arts in psychiatry. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and serves on the Arts and Humanities Committee for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, co-producing a video series on the History of Psychiatry.

DC Fidler lived and worked with the Alutiiq tribe in Akhiok, Alaska, the Al Moqbali Bedouin tribe near Sohar, Oman, the Kalkadoon Tribe in the outback of Queensland, Australia, and the Te Tau Ihu Maori Tribes on the South Island of New Zealand.

He is author of the textbook, “Psychiatry for Actors: Building a Character Using Psychiatric Principles,” and author of the novels: “Dangerous Art,” “Boogieban,” and “Wood Whisperers.”

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