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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?
Nikki Stern There was a house on the corner where I grew up. It sat right on Lake Michigan (I grew up in Wisconsin). I never saw anyone leave or enter the house--none of us kids did--but I saw lights.
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What are you currently working on?
Nikki Stern I'm thinking about the third book in the Sam Tate series. So much COULD happen to Sam, but what SHOULD happen to her? I've also got a children's book planned.
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What books are on your summer reading list this year?
Nikki Stern Read the latest Karin Slaughter, THE GOOD DAUGHTER
Finished the latest MIchael Connelly, FAIR WARNING
Finishing "THE CITY WE BECAME" by N.K. Jemisin
Will read "THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood
Also A PRIVATE CATHEDRAL by James Lee Burke
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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?
Nikki Stern In the near-total dark, she felt her way down the hall, straining to hear something, anything. She held her breath and there it was--a sigh, like a regret for what was about to happen.
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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Nikki Stern Using my imagination
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I just read 'The Former assassin' and absolutely loved it! Such an engaging, exciting story with the best female lead in such a vocation I have ever read! I really hope you continue with this type of writing, you hjave me as a new fan!!?
Nikki Stern What a terrific comment. I thank you and welcome you to the fold ;-) Feel free to visit http://nikkistern.com and subscribe to my website so you can get updates to the latest goings on. We never trade, sell, barter, loan or give out your email.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Nikki Stern Poorly. I cook or I eat.
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Nikki Stern Write anything, even a grocery list or a thank-you note. Rewrite, recraft, revisit. I like new things but sometimes you have an old idea worth reworking. I've done it twice to great effect.
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How do you get inspired to write?
Nikki Stern Butt in chair. Also, my friends.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Nikki Stern It began with a painting I saw of a woman looking across a body of water. That's the opening scene of the book. At some point, the writing became about the challenges my assassin, Suzanne, faced--how her old choices affected her new ones and whether she could reclaim her life in middle age, etc. Additionally, I used to be interested in marksmanship. I engaged in target shooting from age 8 to age eighteen. I was quite serious about it at one point. I thought it would be interesting to revisit the feeling of holding and aiming a rifle--separate, of course from the moral and psychological consequences of aiming a gun at a living being.
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