Karin Slaughter, FALSE WITNESS: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Zibby is joined by illustrious crime author Karin Slaughter, whose books have sold over 35 million copies in 37 languages. The two talk about how Karin's experiences with the pandemic and babysitting factored into her latest book, False Witness, as well as how writing stories throughout her childhood about her sisters disappearing led to her current career. She also shares what it has been like to watch her novel, Pieces of Her, go through the adaptation process with Netflix, and a few behind-the-scenes secrets from her visits to the set.

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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.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Karen Slaughter is the author of False Witness, a novel. Karen is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed storytellers,
0:45.0	published in 120 countries, with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe. Her 21 novels
0:50.9	include the Grant Conteys and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar nominated Coptown and the Instant New York Times best-selling standalone novels, Pretty Girls, The Good Daughter, and Pieces of Her.
1:02.1	Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries Project, a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming, which now I realize I forgot to even ask her
1:11.0	about, so sorry about that. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta. Her standalone novel
1:15.8	pieces of her is in development with Netflix, and the Grant County and Wiltrant series are
1:20.9	in development for television. Welcome, Karen, thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't
1:26.1	have time to read books to discuss false witness and your just amazing career in general. Oh, thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss
1:27.9	false witness and your just amazing career in general. Oh, thank you. So, false witness.
1:33.8	How would you describe this book to people who haven't read it? Well, you know, it's really hard
1:39.1	to describe it without giving so much away. But in essence, it's about two sisters who experience something
1:45.9	super traumatic in the early part of their lives. And we catch up with them 20-something years later.
1:53.3	And of course, this being a thriller, that horrific thing is knocking on their door again.
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