Karin Slaughter

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285 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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And in the last book, she's juggling her parents aging.

Her son is in his 20s and it's time for him to move out of the house.

And so she can't be in that same place in every book.

Things have to change and she has to change along with it.

And so not much time has elapsed from the last one.

Just nothing.

six weeks after where we left off at a pivotal moment for Emmy.

In as much as there's ever a formula to any of my writing.

I mean, yeah, the formula is something really bad happens in the first chapter, right?

Somebody's always going to die.

There's my formula.

But trying to duplicate the rubric that I set out in the first book, where you're firmly planted in one vision and then boom, boom.

You get to a different perspective.

I started my first Will Trent book that way, Triptych.

Yes, I had it while I was writing the previous one, which is usually the case.

And, you know, Kate, my editor, I think she delights in making fun of me because I'm like, I started out, this is a standalone.

And then I thought, oh, wait, well, this would be another great story.

And she's like, I knew it was going to be a series.

Once I realized that, I was able to set up four or five different storylines to follow through.

There's a saying in writing, are you a plotter or a pantser?

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