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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

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Reading is power. Reading is life.

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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

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As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.

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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

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I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

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Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.

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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

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I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.

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Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.

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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.

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There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.

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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.

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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.

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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.

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I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

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