Marissa chats with Karen M. McManus about her new YA mystery - NOTHING MORE TO TELL - as well as developing characters that are complex and relatable by first interviewing them and creating in-depth profiles; outlining your mystery in order to "stress test" the idea, while leaving room for intuition and exploration; how to maintain a close point of view with unreliable narrators while still keeping secrets from your readers; balancing a multitude of messy, complicated subplots, and how secondary storylines can double as misdirection from a central mystery; following your instincts in order to overcome the challenges of "second book syndrome"; and what it's like to have a book developed for a Netflix TV show!

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