MTTA 148: Carter Wilson

Carter Wilson is the USA Today and #1 Denver Post bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed, standalone psychological thrillers, as well as numerous short stories. He is an ITW Thriller Award finalist, a four-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his novels have received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. His seventh novel, The Dead Husband, will be launched in May 2021 by Poisoned Pen Press. Carter lives in Colorado.

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Video Interview

Transcript

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Alan PetersenYou are listening to meet the thriller author, the podcast where I interview Writers of Mysteries, Thrillers and suspense books. I’m host Alan Petersen and this is episode number one hundred and forty eight. In this episode of the podcast will be meeting Carter Wilson, who is the USA Today and number one, and Denver Post bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed standalone psychological thrillers, as well as numerous short stories. He’s an ITW thriller Award finalist, a four time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his novels have received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal. His seventh novel, The Dead Husband, will be published on May 4th by Poison Press. Carter lives in Colorado and had a great time talking to him about his books, his writing process and a lot more. So stay tuned for that interview here. In a moment for show notes and for archive of my other interviews, go to THRILLINGREADS.COM/LINKS and you’ll get access to all my links there from our website, my mailing list, the whole nine yards.

So go check out that at THRILLINGREADS.COM/LINKS. All right. Here is my interview with Carter Wilson.

Carter, welcome to the podcast.

Carter WilsonThanks, Alan, it’s nice to be here.

Alan PetersenAll right. Can you tell us a little bit about your background and your journey to getting your first book published?

Carter WilsonYeah, I you know, I certainly had didn’t have aspirations of being a writer ever. I grew up in Los Angeles and I went to school in New York and I studied hotel administration. And that led me into I worked in hotel operations for a couple of years. But I basically got into consulting for the hospitality industry.

And in my early 30s, like literally one day, you know,