Showing posts with label Karin Slaughter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karin Slaughter. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Author Interview & Giveaway: Karin Slaughter

Last month's crime fiction feature week has reignited my passion for this genre so my plan is to try and read at least 1 or 2 crime books each month alongside my other books.  One of the authors I've heard great things about, but whose books have escaped me until now, is bestselling author Karin Slaughter and I'm delighted to be able to welcome her to the blog today as part of her blog tour.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to be a crime writer?
I sort of fell into crime. Being from the South, I thought I had to write the next Gone With the Wind.  Unfortunately (fortunately?), no one else seemed to want me to.  I got myriad rejections from publishers.  My agent and I had a conversation about what I was going to do next and I told her that I’d always wanted to write a thriller but didn’t think I had it in me to juggle all those plots.  She told me to give it a try and send it to her if I thought it was good.  So, I sat down and wrote what became Blindsighted.

Tell us something about yourself that your readers probably don’t already know? 

I’m so shameless on Facebook that I’m fairly certain everything about me is already out there.  Maybe they don’t know that my father is Enos Slaughter’s second cousin (which will mean nothing to your readers; he’s a player who made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame)