Brit
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Chris Pavone:
In both of your books you've created some great female characters ...women who are smart and a little tough, yet sensitive and likeable. Were you influenced by any other authors characters / or perhaps women in your own life?
Chris Pavone
I think the made-up women in both my books are defined more by their relative power than by their body parts. (The men too, for that matter.) I chose to write two female protagonists because I thought both stories would be more credible and more powerful against the backdrop of motherhood’s tug-of-war, which I think is still a more easily identifiable dilemma than fatherhood’s. In both novels, the choices inherent to being a mother are not only central to the definition of character, but also to the propulsion of plot.
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Adrian
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Chris Pavone:
Hi Mr. Pavone, The Accident was a favorite read of mine last year and I shared it with many of my reading friends as much as I could. I recently finished a book that focused on authors and their personal bookshelves, one of the standing questions for all them or theme if you will, was that they had a book or two that they always go back to. I wondered what is one or two books that you enjoy revisiting time and again?
Elizabeth
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Chris Pavone:
I actually have 2 questions! First is, if you find yourself in a writing slump, or unable to get it down on paper (if that even happens to you!), how do you go about getting out of the slump? The second question is how are you able to do such great dialogue? I have actually lost a lot of sleep reading your books because once I start them I cannot literally put them down!
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