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Kate White is the New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels of suspense: nine standalone psychological thrillers, including Between Two Strangers (May ‘23), and eight Bailey Weggins mysteries.

For fourteen years Kate served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, which under her became the most successful magazine in single copy sales in the U.S. Though she loved her magazine career, she decided to leave nine years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion: writing suspense fiction.

She has been nominated for many awards in her media career, including an International Thriller Writers award. Her first mystery, If Looks Could Kill, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick and #1 bestseller on Amazon. She has been published in countrie
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Kate White Oh, dear Rose, thanks for asking. I got a bit waylaid but I'm working on another Bailey now. I love that girl and she still lives in my head (I know, …moreOh, dear Rose, thanks for asking. I got a bit waylaid but I'm working on another Bailey now. I love that girl and she still lives in my head (I know, sounds kind of crazy).
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Kate White It IS hard. Maybe not for every author but certainly for me now that I’ve written a dozen mysteries and thrillers. Unfortunately I’ve already used up …moreIt IS hard. Maybe not for every author but certainly for me now that I’ve written a dozen mysteries and thrillers. Unfortunately I’ve already used up a bunch of ideas that were in reserve over the years. I’ve found two strategies really help. One is input. An idea needs to spark off something, so I just try to fill my brain with a lot of new stuff. I go through the big clipping file I have. I spend hours online reading about cold cases. I also just go to lots of museums and art galleries to stimulate my thinking. I once actually got an idea for a plot while at a exhibition about the route Marco Polo traveled to the Far East! The other strategy sounds kind of weird, but it really works. It’s something I heard the writer Laura Day say when she was discussing her book on intuition: “Put the question out there to the universe.” Just something as simple as, “What the heck is my next book going to be about?” It seems to get the subconscious working big time so that your mind takes the hint of an idea when you see something like a single glove lying in the street and then starts to run with it. I got the idea for my next Bailey Weggins mystery after I asked the universe and then saw one word in a news story—though if I told you the word, I’d give away the plot.(less)
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I Hope Your Summer Has Been All You Hoped It Would Be!
This summer I ate outdoors every chance I got. You, too?

And that you’re also reminding yourself that there’s still more to come. Years ago, a friend of mine wrote a lovely essay that’s always stayed with me about how summer doesn’t end Labor Day weekend. It keeps going until the fall equinox (which this year isn’t until September 23), and that

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“If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc”
Kate White, How to Set His Thighs on Fire: 86 Red-Hot Lessons on Love, Life, Men, and (Especially) Sex
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“Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.”
Kate White, The Sixes

“your passion doesn’t have to be utterly precise. Perhaps, for starters, you just feel an urge to work with kids or organize things, or create a website. Start with an instinct, tease it into different directions”
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“At forty-one, he was still the quintessential bad boy—charming, at ease in his skin, and great-looking, with deep blue eyes, slicked-back brown hair, and the kind of full, sensuous mouth that bad boys seemed to have an unfair market on.”
Kate White, Eyes on You

“Well, be careful,” she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. “Because wouldn’t it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?”
Kate White, Eyes on You

“I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I’d been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.”
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“She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.”
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“I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.”
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