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Dedicated with Doug Brunt

Ruth Ware

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

Over Drinks, Books, Tv & Film, Novels, Lounge, Doug Brunt, Megyn Kelly, Author, Cocktail, Arts, Book

5.0599 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Ware: dry white wine #1 bestselling author Ruth Ware names the two greatest fictional detectives ever, describes the gratitude a former bookseller feels to be a published author, why she made the switch from writing YA fantasy novels to adult crime fiction, her milestones throughout the year to keep an annual publishing pace, how Agatha Christie inspired her own approach to creating an atmosphere for her novels, what she loves about America.

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Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside

0:06.0

the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations

0:10.7

with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can

0:16.5

see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.

0:22.1

You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some

0:27.0

of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they

0:31.9

discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.

0:41.5

Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Ruth Ware.

0:45.7

Ruth is the number one New York Times best-selling author of nine novels,

0:50.0

frequently compared to the great Agatha Christie. She has won numerous awards,

0:54.0

including Best Book of the Year from the Christie, she has won numerous awards, including

0:54.3

Best Book of the Year from the New York Times, from NPR, from Wall Street Journal.

0:59.6

And she has won Best Mystery Book of All Time from Time magazine.

1:04.6

Her books include The Woman in Cabin 10, in a Dark Dark Wood, and her latest, just out,

1:09.9

One Perfect Couple. Ruth, welcome to the show. Oh, well, thank you so much for having wood, and her latest, just out, one perfect couple.

1:11.4

Ruth, welcome to the show.

1:12.7

Oh, well, thank you so much for having me and for that incredible introduction.

1:16.2

I should say, just in the interest of journalistic accuracy, it was best of 100 books in Time magazine.

1:23.0

So, yeah, I was one of the 100 best mystery books of all time. But still an amazing accolade.

1:29.6

Well, you shouldn't, you don't need to be too accurate. You could have let me just go.

1:32.1

Yeah, I was number one. Number one in all categories. Well, your pick today is a dry white wine.

1:38.3

So I actually learned a little bit. I had always thought dry and sweet were sort of different ends of the same comparison, but I learned you can be both dry and sweet. So that was news to me. Every day's news to me. So anyway, we've got a Sauvignon Blanc here, which apparently is one of the drier wines. I always enjoy a savenile box. So we will get going on that. How much am I legally required to drink as part of the interview?

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