Ask the Author: Brittany Butler
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Brittany Butler
As a true fangirl of The Outlander series, I think I'd like to visit during the time period of when the first book in the series was written and see what the Jacobite rising (and Jamie Fraser;) are really like! I'd also be just fine entering back into Julian Fellows world or Julia Quinn's England.
Brittany Butler
I am really excited to start the latest book from one of my favorite authors, Kate Quinn, "The Diamond Eye". I'm also diving into Sara Donati's "Into The Wilderness" and for the beach, I'm looking at getting started on Brendan Dubois' "Count Down"
Brittany Butler
I think I'm still figuring out how I ended up in the CIA, hunting terrorists all over the Middle East. When I look back at the stuff I did in my early 20s, learning to shoot out of car windows, illicit information from detainees and sources, I can hardly believe it myself. The reason I know that it is real, it has to be, is because I carry those same feelings with me today and incorporate them into my writing.
Brittany Butler
Why making up and living in imaginary worlds with imaginary characters!
Brittany Butler
Keep going and never ever give up. If you love writing as much as I do, you'll have no choice but to keep going.
Brittany Butler
I am working on book 2 in my new spy thriller series. It will focus on what the Middle East would look like with a woman in charge and what it looks like when my heroine forges her own path in the world of espionage.
Brittany Butler
I re-read books that I love and get inspired again by authors whose prose and storytelling I adore.
Brittany Butler
But my book is not a memoir; it is fiction based on fact. I did this not only to disguise the CIA’s sources and methods but also to tell the more compelling and true story behind the moral and social struggles within espionage—stories that people don’t hear. My upcoming thriller, The Syndicate Spy,
sheds necessary light on what makes female intelligence officers truly unique in the recruitment and handling of spies and dispels some of the stereotypes propagated by some television shows, films, and other spy novels.
sheds necessary light on what makes female intelligence officers truly unique in the recruitment and handling of spies and dispels some of the stereotypes propagated by some television shows, films, and other spy novels.
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