On this week’s Corks & Conversation with Katie Lattari episode we talked about her debut thriller and a certain famous neighbor in Maine! Have a listen …
Katie Lattari’s thriller, Dark Things I Adore, drew us into the Maine woods, weaving stories from the past and present in a darkly delicious way. It is a tale of secrets, lurking danger, and revenge. But our discussion was more on the fun side of how she made the story and her inspirations. As Katie put it …
“I would love to write a story where the woman was in charge and is the one doing the revenge and doing the violence. I think there are a lot of books where, and these thrillers are so compelling and I’m obsessed with them, where the protagonist who happens to be female is kind of always on her back feet, and the work of the book is for her to figure out ‘am I losing my mind? What’s going on? How can I get out of this situation?’ She’s the one scrabbling and scraping and trying to figure things out. And I was like ‘I’d like to reverse that’ ”
Katie also has been blogging about the process of publication. We love how she has gone into detail and shared it with the world. As she says,
“There seems to be, for some reason that is unclear to me, a bit of mystery, a bit of obfuscation around publishing- the business of it, certainly money. And I don’t know why, in the sense that, it is just a business, it is just an industry like any other. But there’s a weird sort of shame or something around just talking about these things in very real terms. And then on top of that there’s a bit of mystery about like ‘don’t share the trade secrets’ as if someone being successful means that there’s one less seat at the table”
Dark Things I Adore is a masterfully written dive into haunting psychological crime fiction! We suggest you get a copy (indie bookshop.org or Amazon.com) And ironically we paired it with a sweet wine, Castello del Poggio Moscato. Or you can order your wine from Naked Wines! We absolutely love their wines and what they’re all about! Just be sure to use one of our links when you order (like the coupon at the top of our website) so that we can get a little credit for the referral!
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Highlights:
1:48 Guess who else lives in Maine?
16:25 who doesn’t love a lazer-focused, in control, and dangerous woman?
18:16 Phil Collins sounds lemony and a professor smells like smoked sausage
19:59 unusual tattoo inspo
28:30 imposter syndrome
31:52 the beauty in working your ass off
32:52 my neighbor, Stephen King
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