Really excited to talk in this episode to Alma Katsu. Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated, and won multiple awards.

Alma also writes novels of historical fiction with supernatural and horror vibes. The Hunger is a novel about the Donner Party, and was named one of NPR’s 100 favorite horror stories, was on numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and is considered by many as a new classic in the genre. Her debut novel The Taker was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2011 by Booklist.

Her new novel is Red Widow, her first spy novel, inspired by her 30+ year career in intelligence. As an intelligence officer. Alma worked at several federal agencies as a senior analyst where she advised policymakers and military commanders on issues of national security.

We have a really fun conversation about Alma’s career, learning writing from legends, doing research and writing historical fiction, a career in intelligence, getting a Stephen King blurb, and the nitty-gritty of writing a spy novel when you know what it is really like behind the scenes. Once we get into spoilers, we break down the nuts and bolts of crafting betrayals, writing realistic spies, and developing a plan.

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