Ask the Author: Katherine Nichols
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Katherine Nichols
The story percolated around me while growing up in Coronado, attending the same high school as the smugglers (albeit several years later) and frequenting the same beaches.
Katherine Nichols
Inspiration comes with gratitude, which is something I always feel. But sparks also arise from running or swimming, reading a favorite author, conversing with an interesting person, traveling, or cleaning the apartment (seriously!).
Katherine Nichols
Deep Water was just released, so I'm still touring and speaking. Next up is a manuscript that was excerpted in the New York Times several years ago. It's about dementia -- a not-so-subtle departure from drug smuggling.
Katherine Nichols
Hard work. Perseverance. Seek glamour elsewhere.
Katherine Nichols
Meeting and interviewing fascinating people, hearing about their lives, and learning from them.
Katherine Nichols
As a longtime journalist/staff writer, any sort of block that interferes with a deadline is not an option. But if I'm really stuck, I try to suspend self-criticism and just write. It may need a lot of revision later, but that seems preferable to a blank page. At least it feels like progress.
Katherine Nichols
Troubling Love, by Elena Ferrante; Stress Test, by Tim Geithner; Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett; Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, and several more. Plus dozens of New Yorker and Economist articles that stacked up while I spent two years reading business cases!
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