What, Why, How: Paula Treick DeBoard

WHAT?

I write realistic fiction. Sometimes my books are filed under “mystery” or “thriller,” but when I’m writing, I’m thinking about the people involved—usually families at a point of crisis. My own term for this is “family drama.” I write about the ways that humans get tangled up in situations or secrets and then try to untangle themselves.

These days, I’m gearing up for the publication of my third novel The Drowning Girls (MIRA, April 2016), which is about a family that grasps at a chanc...