It’s a sultry, late-August afternoon and the acclaimed, wildly popular New York Times-bestselling author Kim Harrison is explaining why she decided to cross over into a new literary genre by writing the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller The Drafter, the first of The Peri Reed Chronicles trilogy.
Harrison is sipping an iced tea outside her home near Ann Arbor, Mich., in her office/gazebo, where she writes.
Harrison, who exploded onto the literary map with the urban fantasy Hollows series, set in and around Cincinnati, tells me how she’s been working very hard the past few months to “seduce” her old readership into trying her new work.
“I want them to see it is still the same style — the same attention to relationships and character development,” she says. “It’s a good, quick, fast-paced story." Read a full interview with Harrison here.
Kim Harrison will read from The Drafter at Joseph-Beth Bookseller at Rookwood Commons 7 p.m. Wednesday. More info: josephbeth.com.
