#24 - Kathy Reichs' Perspective on the Book Publishing Business
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This podcast includes the full and unabridged audio feed of the Kobo in Conversation interview with\\xa0Kathy Reichs conducted by\\xa0Bob Ramsay and hosted by Kobo\'s Senior Director of Communications Tracy Nesdoly.
The interview covers the following:
- The \\u201cBig Bang Break\\u201d that happens in an investigation \\u2013 that one moment when realization explodes and the search hurdles forward on the right trajectory.
- The new YA writing she is doing in collaboration with her son
- How, even though she has sold millions of copies of her novels around the world, has a television series based on her popular recurring character Temperance Brennan, she is still on tour and treats every new book with the same enthusiasm as her first book
- Kathy\\u2019s perspective on the book publishing business and the promotion and sale of books in the next five years, with respect to the fact that recent UK stats of Kathy\\u2019s books show print sales up 30% and the electronic sales are up 68%
- The importance of a presence on social media and the fact that Kathy does all her own Twitter
- The difference between the book \\u201cTempe\\u201d and the TV \\u201cTempe\\u201d \\u2013 and how on the TV show Teperance Brennan is a writer who writes a series about a fictional anthropologist named Kathy Reichs (a little tongue-in-cheek inside joke for her readers)
- The\\xa0electronic-only \\u201cViral\\u201d series of stories that feature the Tempe\\u2019s great niece (Tory Brennan) and is about kids using science to solve cold cases.
- How Bones Never Lie is Kathy\\u2019s second book about a female serial killer.
- Behind the scenes on the inspiration for Kathy\\u2019s novel Monday Mourning, based on Kathy\\u2019s real-life experience involving the eerie discovery of bones in a cellar.
- The terrible occupational hazard that comes with cases in which the victims are truly innocent.
- The forensic work that Kathy has done in places such as Iraq, the World Trade Centre and an interesting trip in which Kathy and a group of other authors took a Black Hawk helicopter to thank front-line troups in Afghanistan.
- What Kathy\\u2019s next book is going to be about and how it is drawn from intrigue and mystery from the Carolina Mountains.
- How and when storytelling came into this scientist\\u2019s life, including \\u201cThe Mystery in the Old House\\u201d a hand-written \\u201cnovel\\u201d Kathy had written when she was 9 years old.
- How a forensic examiner has to learn how to be objective and separate themselves from the personal in order to properly investigate and properly represent the victim.
- Thoughts about the \\u201cHoly Grail\\u201d of forensic mysteries.
- How Kathy writes \\u201cgood old fashioned\\u201d murder mysteries, but where the key element in solving the mystery is science.
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KWL Director Mark Lefebvre talks a bit about the concept of \\u201cwrite what you know\\u201d based on Kathy\\u2019s experience, the experience of author Melissa Yi and for writers who don\'t have first hand knowledge.\\xa0 The key, of course, is research.\\xa0 Mark references a great article by KWL\\u2019s Shayna Krishnasamy called \\u201cI\\u2019d Rather Not Be Talking to You but I\\u2019m Writing This Book: How a Shy Writer Tackles Research\\u201d in which she outlines research options for writers and Mark also draws from his own personal experience doing research for non-fiction (Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores & Libraries) as well as fiction.
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