What inspired you to become an author?
I think its because I read like crazy always have
done and sometimes I’d read a book and think this is so interesting but how and
why did this or that go down? If I wondered enough I wrote my own book about
it.
Do you have a specific writing style?
You mean besides the drugs? If you did then its to
die for boring. I write like I’m working for some humorless jerk (that would be
me) I sit down Monday thru Friday and make myself lay down five pages, on a
good day that’s four hours on a bad day its fourteen, and I then complain to
management but she’s an uncaring idiot so I am still forced to produce 5 pages
sigh.
Do you write in different genres?
Yes two, paranormal romance and faction, faction
just means it all really went down I just call it fiction and change the names
to protect the innoncent (me) from lawsuits.
If yes which is your favorite genre to write?
Definitely faction (fiction based on facts)
How did you come up with the title for your latest
book?
I’m not very smart and this book is the story as
told from the point of views of four women who were murdered by their husbands
at night as it happened and so erm..the night my husband killed me came to
mind, I waited to see if anything else would and when it didn’t I went with
this.
Is there a message in your novel that you want
readers to grasp?
Well yes, I for one and bear in mind that I’m not a
marriage counselor think that marrying psychopaths is a really poor idea no
matter how good looking or rich they are. For people considering it I might
suggest that they read my book first!
Is the book, characters, or any scenes based on a
true life experience, someone you know, or events in your own life?
Fortunately none of this is based on any events in
my own life, if it were I assume I’d be dead which would mean I was the
ultimate ghost writer! However Natalie Wood, Nicole Brown Simpson and Colette
Macdonald and Sunny Von Bulow were indeed real women. Lovely young caring women
and great mothers and the book is dedicated to their lives as well as their
terrible unjust deaths.
What books/authors have influenced your life?
Several but Dominick Dunne was so kind to me and
gave me my first story and the great Stephen King influenced me too as I
imagine he has a few hundred thousand other writers.
If you had to choose, which writer would you
consider a mentor?
Joe McGinnis, a great man a great writer
What book are you reading now?
Until The Twelth of Never and Simons Choice,
simultaneously actually, they are both fantastic but I think I may be
clinically depressed now!
What books are in your to read pile?
John Irvings new one and a killer ghost story called
The Gravedigger
What is your current “work in progress” or upcoming projects?
In a couple of months I’ll release The Night My
Mother Killed Me and its about the Casey Anthony case from waaaay up close.
Can you share a little of your current work with us?
Of
course
I didn’t see it coming. One minute I was going on with my life and then
I was fighting for it and then it was over.
I never saw myself as special when I was
alive. I think maybe if I’d been given time I might have become a little
special; at least I was trying. I never stopped trying; not after I had to drop
out of college because I was pregnant──not during the rough hurried years of
early marriage and motherhood which happened to me simultaneously. No matter
how little time or money or how few my chances were, I kept trying.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging
in your writing?
God yes, my research is crazed, I put myself in the
weirdest and sometimes most dangerous situations all to find out how it went
down or as close to it as I can get without actually being killed in the
process.
Who is your favorite author and what is it that
really strikes you about their work?
John Irving, I mean I have others but every
Christmas I re-read Cider House Rules, that line, “Goodnight you princes of
Maine, you kings of New England,” made me go into child protection and also its
made me try all my life to be as good to people as I possibly can be. But heck
I love a million faves do you have a month?
Do you have to travel much to do research for your
books?
Yes, I always try to go to either the scene or to
interview the killer and family members if possible.
Who designed the cover of your latest book?
Tim Hewtson, he’s gifted and wonderful and (spoiler
alert :-) my husband)
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Yes I do, this is a strange lonely career, and so
its good to remember whats important your readers and build up relationships
with them and once you do that they will send you cake recipes.
Do you have a song or playlist (book soundtrack) that
you think represents this book?
Oh yes and it’s a weird one. For Colette “Stand by
your man” For Nicole “You Give Love a Bad Name” For Sunny its an ironic one,
Sinatra’s “The Good Life” and for Natalie it’s the beautiful theme from
Westside Story A Place for us in the hope that she found one :-)
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The Night My Husband Killed Me
Kathleen Hewtson
Kathleen Hewtson
Genre: Fiction/Paranormal/True Crime
Publisher: Taylor Street Books Publication Date 07-11-2012
ISBN: 1478231688
ASIN: B008KEE5W2
Number of pages: 328
Word Count: 90.000
Cover Artist: Tim Hewtson
Book Description:
A movie heart-throb
A sports superstar
An aristocrat
A brilliant surgeon
Killers all.
These are the stories of those they killed.
Their wives.
'The Night My Husband Killed Me', is the story of four women who were murdered by their husbands.
All of the women were beautiful, and were either famous at the time of their deaths, or became famous for being the victims of the charismatic, disturbed, men who ended their lives.
Being dead doesn’t end a woman’s feelings, or her anger. There is Natalie, the international and revered movie star who died the death she had most feared all of her life. There is the beautiful, life-loving Nicole, who might just have gone back to the stunning athlete she loved, if only he hadn’t killed her first. Then there is Sunny, heiress to one of America's greatest fortunes, sent into an irreversible coma for paying too much for all the wrong things. And finally, there is Colette, the high school sweetheart who married the golden boy and endured a marriage of increasing lies and disappointment, culminating in her death and that of her little girls shortly after Valentine’s Day.
These four amazing women’s lives were cut short, but each has a story to tell … and now they have.
About the Author
Kathleen Hewtson lives and writes in San Francisco California, her writing focuses on actual cases which she then takes and makes into books about how it might have happened. This is her fifth novel.
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thanks for joining us today Kathleen
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