Caroline Fraser

I didn't want to do that because it's been done and because, you know, I think people...

When they're reading something for, I wouldn't say entertainment, but they want to find something compelling and absorbing and learn something.

And this, I thought, was a way of, in Murderland, of presenting this material in a way that people could kind of say, oh, I didn't know about this.

What happened with lead during World War II, I didn't know about what it could do to kids and how that might show up years later in their lives.

It's kind of overwhelming, you know, to see it suddenly kind of be in people's hands and they're reading it and they're asking you questions.

And, yeah, I mean, the funny thing about writing a book is that while you're writing it and doing the research, it's kind of your own private Idaho, you know, it's your own private world.

little playpen where you get to make all the decisions and, you know, make all the choices.

And then, you know, editors get involved and all these other, you know, people at the publishing house and they start saying, well, what about this?

What about that?

And that's always sort of terrifying because you realize, oh, I haven't thought about all the

You know, ramifications.

I need to, you know, do all this fact checking and make sure everything's right.

And, you know, so that's a real, you know, hump to get over to just make sure that, you know, you've gotten everything nailed down as much as you can.

Yeah.

And that's all great.

But then it enters people's hands and they're reading it.

And sometimes, you know, when you publish a book, people have really different responses than you even imagined.

You know, I mean, you can't control it anymore.

It's just out in the world doing its thing.

And it's interesting.