Tasha Alexander: June 2009 Archives

Karin Slaughter, the #1 internationally bestselling author of FRACTURED, has sold over 17 million copies worldwide. Publishers Weekly lauded her newest book, UNDONE, in a starred review: "Bestseller Slaughter brings together characters from her two series for the first time with electrifying results...[she] ups the emotional ante with every twist and turn in this disturbing thriller."

What's was the most difficult part of writing UNDONE?

BEYOND REACH, my last Grant County book had a pretty explosive ending.  My next book was FRACTURED, which is about Will Trent's world, so I didn't really have time to sit down and consider the emotional fall-out of what had happened in the previous book.  I'm being very cryptic here so as not to spoil things, but those who already read the book will know what I'm talking about.  The ending of BEYOND REACH was the hardest thing I've ever written.  As difficult as that was, talking about Sara in UNDONE was even harder.

What's your writing routine like?

I'm very lazy most of the time, but when it's time to write, I'm crazy busy.  I block out some time and go up to my cabin in the North Georgia mountains where it's just me and the bears and work for weeks at a time.  Usually, I'm pulling twelve to fifteen hour days.  It's really rough, and I would not recommend my writing routine to anyone.   
I suppose it comes from having such a finite amount of time to work on writing way back in the day when I was struggling to get published.  I had a full-time job, and then I had to block out time on nights and weekends to write.  Even though my only job now is to write, I still write on the same schedule as I did before.