First it was the herds of deer in the yard. Then the ground hogs on the porch. And then, oh boy, the bear at the bird feeder. Lately, it seems, nature has been encroaching more and more on our weekend home in Pennsylvania. Sometimes it can be breathtaking. Like this [...]
Don't you love the feeling you get when someone does something nice for you out of the blue, something you didn't see coming but that ends up making your day? I had that experience the other night while I was signing books at the launch party for my new psychological [...]
Article originally appeared on thebigthrill.org The Secrets You Keep by Kate White Bigger, Bolder, Better—and Badass! By April Snellings Plenty of thriller protagonists find their lives or homes infiltrated by strangers who mean them harm; in the burgeoning genre of domestic suspense, though, they discover they may have already invited [...]
This conversation originally appeared on Lisa Unger's website here Kate White – wow! Former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine (yes, she knows all your secrets!), bestselling author of thrillers and mysteries, and a business and career expert who travels the country speaking to women. Impossible not to be intimidated by this [...]
The stupendously successful thriller writer Harlan Coben once told me that he thought doing research for a book was often a form of procrastination. I’m sure that’s true in certain instances because writing is hard, and sometimes you’ll do anything in the world to avoid popping open that laptop. But [...]
I've been in Uruguay for more than a month now, and it's been the perfect place for me to finish up my next Bailey Weggins mystery, which will be out this fall. For some reason I've never understood, it's easier for me to write when the weather is hot. My [...]
I took an 11:30 p.m. plane to Montevideo, Uruguay, where I’m spending the next couple of months with my husband. No balloons, no hats, no noisemakers, no Kathy Griffin, and that was just fine for me. (The beautiful photo shows the view from my deck at our house in the [...]
Is it cold yet in your neck of the woods? Right now I'm in Uruguay, where it's in the high 70s to low 80s. Delightful! In the New York City area, winter showed up gangbuster style right before Thanksgiving. Just two weeks earlier, my husband and I ate lunch al [...]
About seven years ago, my husband and I did something really crazy—we bought a house in Uruguay, with the idea of gradually spending most of the winter there (south of Brazil and east of Argentina). I grew up in New York State, where it's beyond cold in the winter, and [...]