Intent on writing another psychological thriller, Flora Collins said the inspiration for “A Small Affair” came from a documentary about the 2018 Chris Watts case. Watts killed his pregnant wife and two daughters to be with his mistress”.
and with online dating…I think too much of a good thing can be bad. But I’m not trying to make any kind of moral statement about anyone’s use of those applications. There are definitely parallels and dangers. But I would never tell someone, ‘Don’t use the dating apps.’ Or, ‘Don’t useReaders are meant to be clued in to how fashion is an art form that requires a lot of deep thought. Collins added, “There is also more gatekeeping that goes in fashion than in other industries.
There won’t be an Instagram campaign for the book’s launch Tuesday, but Collins likes to reshare favorable reviews and DM with fellow authors like Hannah Mary McKinnon, Emily Freud and Clemence Michallon. Collins attended Chapin and later graduated from Vassar College, and has been big on storytelling and reading for many years — writing has always been her “shtick,” she said.
Her parents’ keep-at-it support has been a plus, as has rejection. “The more you are rejected, the thicker your skin gets. I wrote one manuscript that did not sell to publishers. It died on submission, as they say,” Collins explained. “That was a great learning experience. I was able to write ‘Nanny Dearest’ right after that.”by YA author E. Lockhart, Megan Abbott and many other thriller specialists. “I will say that I read almost exclusively in my genre. It’s my favorite thing to read.
Highly social, she is out nearly every night of the week, having dinner with friends, going to parties, meeting new people and taking in some arts and culture. One hundred pages into her next book, which is not under contract, Collins is crafting a plot around an all-girls private school. As for the inevitable is-anything-autobiographical question, Collins said “definitely not” with “A Small Affair.” She added, “It’s easy for me to set books in New York because I grew up in New York. But I wouldn’t say that I am any of my characters. There might be elements of me in some of them. But no one is a placeholder for me.”
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