This week I’m chatting with New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose, and this episode was almost titled, "The catharsis of killing lots of people."She has a new book out February 12th titled Say You’re Sorry. It is the start of a new romantic suspense series with an overarching storyline throughout.Please note that at various times in the interview, we talk about trauma, violence, PTSD, and other elements of building murderers, serial killers, and victims in suspense and thriller novels.We also talk about:Cults, killers, and incorporating pieces of reality in suspenseWriting nuanced, motivated villains with vulnerabilitiesWriting trauma as part of a story, and how to research that portrayalHow she got her start writing - in secret - and how many times she rewrote her first novelHow reverse-engineering Law & Order and suspense stories wherein she couldn’t guess the killer right away helped her learn suspense structureWhy knitting is a great plot development toolSo, what do you do when people around you are sometimes really crappy, mildly crappy, or full-on terrible all-around USDA Grade-A organic crappy? Kill them off, or make them killers. It seems to be, judging from this conversation, very cathartic. Get bonus content on Patreon
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