Clare Mackintosh, HOSTAGE: A Locked-Room Thriller

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Although many people haven't started flying at the same rate they were pre-pandemic, Clare Mackintosh's latest thriller, Hostage, might make it hard for anyone to ever get back there. Clare joined Zibby to talk about her love for writing on planes (which partially inspired the story's setting on a 20-hour flight), how her writing habits have changed over the last year, and what she plans to work on now that she has rediscovered her creativity.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Claire McIntosh is the author of Hostage, a locked room thriller. Claire is an award-winning New York Times, an international
0:44.7	best-selling author. She spent 12 years on the police force in England and has written for the
0:49.6	guardian, good housekeeping, and other publications. Translated into 40 languages, her books have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.
0:57.0	Claire lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.
1:00.3	Welcome, Claire.
1:01.1	Thanks for coming on Mom's No-Time to read books to discuss hostage.
1:05.2	You can save hundreds of lives or the one that matters most.
1:08.8	That's good. You should be like one of those movie announcers. You just need to get that good. That's true. I need to be a man with a low voice. Other than that, I'm fine. Excellent. And by the way, may I just say that you had the coolest, like, marketing package that I've seen with, like, that came so long ago now. I feel like one
1:28.2	even was that months ago with like the like well describe it to everybody. What did you do?
1:33.1	Because it's like they did such a cool job. I was actually quite, I was quite envious.
1:38.2	I was quite jealous because I'm in the UK and so I have my UK team doing stuff.
1:42.1	But in the States, they put together this really cool in-flight magazine. And then what else for? Because I haven't had it. I feel like there was like a ticket. There were like a ticket. And like it was like a whole, yeah, you felt like you were going on the flight. Which was really good timing, of course, because nobody was going on a flight. So I figured actually it's going to work
2:01.5	one of two ways. It's either going to be really great to make people really excited or everyone's
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