{"id":1027,"date":"2015-09-23T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2015-09-23T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T01:04:43","slug":"karin-slaughter-writing-murder-from-lifes-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Karin Slaughter: Writing murder from life&#8217;s tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/KarinSlaughterWEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1028\" alt=\"KarinSlaughterWEB\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/KarinSlaughterWEB.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.karinslaughter.com\">Karin Slaughter<\/a>\u2019s debut novel, <em>Blindsighted<\/em>, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers&#8217; Association\u2019s Dagger Award for &#8220;Best Thriller Debut&#8221; of 2001. Since then, she\u2019s released over a dozen books which have sold over 30 million copies. She\u2019ll be a guest author at the <a href=\"www.thurberhouse.org\/\">Thurber House<\/a> on \u00a0Wednesday, September 30. Her latest book,<em> Pretty Girls<\/em>, is an exploration of \u201cthe relationships between people connected by blood, by love, by shared history. This is a [book] about family secrets and betrayals.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3\">Listen in<\/a>\u00a0to hear about what family difficulties got her interested in this topic, why she released a web-only short story related to the novel, and what government service&#8217;s funding Karin Slaughter thinks is \u201ca tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Special Bonus: first person to post a comment following the September 23 broadcast on WCBE, 90.5 FM, Columbus, Ohio, wins Karin&#8217;s new book, <em>Pretty Girls<\/em> (to be picked up at WCBE, 540 Jack Gibbs Blvd, Columbus, Ohio).<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3323\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1027-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1027-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2015-9-23-Slaughter.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karin Slaughter\u2019s debut novel, Blindsighted, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers&#8217; Association\u2019s Dagger Award for &#8220;Best Thriller Debut&#8221; of 2001. Since then, she\u2019s released over a dozen books which have sold over 30 million copies. She\u2019ll be a guest author &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,74],"tags":[245,243,244],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-original-craft-productions","category-thurber-house-author","tag-book-giveaway","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-pretty-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}