#24 Caroline Kepnes (Fiction Author) - On Writing Crime Fiction, Technology Addiction & Friendships

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Caroline Kepnes is an author of YOU & Hidden Bodies. She's also a journalist, having covered pop culture for Entertainment Weekly, Tiger Beat, Teen Machine, E! Online, and Yahoo! TV. She has also written for the television shows and lives in Los Angeles. We talk about Internet addiction, obsession, writing crime fiction, how to be "authentic" and controlling friendships.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Control Alt Delete. This is the podcast with the same name as my book also called
0:05.0	Control Alt Delete How I Grew up online which is out now
0:08.7	So today's guest is Caroline Keptness. She is the author of two extremely addictive and thrilling books
0:16.8	called You and Hidden Bodies and there are more to come. These books tell the story from
0:22.0	Joe Goldberg's point of view, her character that she created.
0:26.6	And the books are from his perspective.
0:29.0	He is a charming sociopath, as Amazon says in a description. He is quite the amazing character. You get very absorbed in his life and these books are so gripping.
0:41.2	Lena Danham has called the plot Twisty and says that Kepnes's wit and style keeps
0:46.8	you coming back. Stephen King has called these books hypnotic and scary and it is compulsively readable. It is brilliant. So I met Caroline at
0:57.2	the Simon's used to offices where she was promoting her second book, Hidden Bodies.
1:03.2	And it was amazing to meet her.
1:04.8	We had a really good chat about how to write crime fiction,
1:09.2	how the idea came about for these books,
1:11.6	the career journey that she's been on. We also talk about
1:14.5	obsession and social media and social media addiction. We also talk about
1:19.5	friendships and controlling friendships, which is a theme in the books too.
1:24.0	So I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:25.8	I loved talking to Caroline.
1:27.3	I think her books are brilliant,
1:28.8	and I can't wait for the next one.
1:30.2	So if you haven't read them already,
1:32.3	make sure that you get you and hidden bodies on your holiday reading list because you will not be able to put them down.
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