I Wrote a Psychological Thriller. Yes, You’re on the Right Blog.

 If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you may have just done a double take. The Ovulation Murders? On a parenting blog? 

Yes. You’re in the right place.

Since 2010, I’ve been writing about parenting, children, behavior, cooperation, discipline, communication, and the sometimes-messy business of raising human beings. I’ve taught parenting classes, coached parents, written books about raising cooperative children, hosted radio and television programs, produced podcasts, and written hundreds of articles intended to make family life just a little easier.

So I completely understand if seeing a psychological thriller called The Ovulation Murders pop up here seems a little… unexpected. But there’s another side of my writing that many of my longtime readers may not know about. I’ve Always Been Fascinated by Human Behavior

Long before I began teaching parenting, I studied psychology. What has fascinated me throughout my
adult life is a deceptively simple question: Why do people do what they do? That question became central to my work with parents. Why is a child behaving this way?  What is happening beneath the behavior? What does someone believe, fear, need, or want that causes them to respond the way they do?

But those same questions can lead a writer into much darker territory. What happens when someone's behavior becomes unpredictable? What happens when love, attraction, fear, confusion, and obsession become tangled together? And what happens when the person you think you know suddenly becomes someone you don't recognize?

Those questions eventually helped inspire my newest book, The Ovulation Murders: A Deadly Love Story. It's based on a rare but real disorder. And no, this one definitely isn't a parenting book, although the main character is a parent coach. While getting my degree in clinical psychology, I found myself focusing more on the segment of Abnormal Psychology... why some people do bad things.

From Parent Coach to Psychological Thriller Author

Writing fiction gave me an opportunity to explore human behavior in an entirely different way. Instead of explaining behavior, I could create characters and let readers experience it. Instead of offering solutions, I could create questions. Instead of helping readers make sense of someone's actions, I could occasionally leave them thinking: What on earth is she going to do next?

The Ovulation Murders grew from a mixture of imagination, my longtime fascination with abnormal human behavior, and pieces of lived experience that stayed with me for years. The result is a psychological thriller about attraction, confusion, recurring patterns, and what can happen when someone keeps trying to make sense of behavior that doesn't seem to make sense at all.

It's darker than anything I've written before. A LOT darker. But I'm incredibly excited to finally share it.

And I’m Giving Away Kindle Copies!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Ovulation Murders

by Bill Corbett

Giveaway ends September 19, 2026.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

To celebrate the release of The Ovulation Murders, I'm holding a Goodreads Giveaway, where readers can enter for a chance to win a Kindle copy of the book. If psychological thrillers, complicated characters, disturbing behavior, mystery, and plenty of "what happens next?" are your kind of reading, I'd love for you to enter.

And if thrillers aren't your thing, that's perfectly fine too. I'll still be here writing about parenting, children, behavior, communication, and family life just as I have since 2010. I'm not leaving the parenting world. I'm simply adding another bookshelf.

In fact, maybe that's one of the nice things about reaching this stage of life. We don't have to remain only the person we've been known as. We can explore something new. We can dust off an old interest. We can create something completely unexpected.

Even after spending more than a decade writing about raising cooperative kids. Apparently, we can also write about murder. Who knew?

Thank you to everyone who has read my articles, listened to my programs, bought my parenting books, shared my work, or followed me during all these years. You've helped give my words an audience, and I don't take that for granted. Now I'm inviting you to see a very different side of my writing.

Welcome to The Ovulation Murders: Book One. It'll have you unable to wait for the next one!

About Bill Corbett

Bill Corbett is an award-winning author, writer, publisher, podcaster, and longtime student of human behavior. With a background in psychology, he has spent more than 15 years helping parents better understand why children—and adults—do the things they do.

His books and articles on parenting, communication, and human behavior have reached readers around the world. Now, Bill is taking his fascination with the human mind in a decidedly darker direction with his psychological thriller, The Ovulation Murders: A Deadly Love Story.

Bill is the father of three grown children, grandfather of six, and great-grandfather of two. When he isn't writing about raising cooperative children, he's apparently figuring out how fictional people might get away with murder.