S19 Ep145: The Close-Up w/ Pip Drysdale
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Pip Drysdale has written books that have been praised as "electric", "Unexpected", "tension-soaked", and "serious addictive". But this new book, "The Close-Up", ups the ante!
A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty new novel.
When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she’s falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel, a thriller, fails. And she has writer’s block worse than ever before. Now, three years later, Zach is famous, and Zoe is...not. She’s facing her thirtieth birthday, a dead-end job at a flower shop, and a demanding agent, terrified she’ll never get her life back on track. But when she runs into Zach while on a job, it’s like no time has passed at all. They start dating in secret, her writer’s block disappears, and Zoe begins to wonder: Zach inspired her first novel, so why can’t he inspire her second? Inevitably, photos of the couple are leaked to the press, causing her first novel to go viral. But the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name—including the mysterious stalker obsessed with Zach. A stalker who begins reenacting violent events from Zoe’s book, step by step, against her.
On Today's TCT, Pip Drysdale joins us to talk about her beginnings, the inspiration for "The Close-Up", The psychology of human beings and the duality of personalities that go into this novel. and, the scenarios that lead to the shocking ending of "The Close-Up!"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.6 | Every once in a while, I like to veer off, and we go from True Crime. We go into the area of fiction. |
| 0:35.1 | I read a wonderful book today. In fact, I have it, actually this weekend. |
| 0:38.5 | I have it right in front of me right here. |
| 0:39.5 | It's called The Closeup. |
| 0:40.5 | And it's by Pip Drysdale, who is our guest today. |
| 0:43.6 | And, boy, I tell you, it's a great thriller. |
| 0:46.5 | It takes us to the area of Hollywood and to the area of, put it this way. |
| 0:58.4 | It's the area of where things don't quite appear as they are. |
| 1:01.1 | And I love thrillers like this. |
| 1:06.5 | I love thrillers where it kind of takes the shine and the sheen off of things. |
| 1:09.7 | It gives you the real world as it appears, right? |
| 1:15.6 | I think we like to get caught up in, you know, the glamour and the glitz of things and think that people have life kind of by the tail and that everybody's living life |
| 1:22.2 | a lot better than we are. |
| 1:23.3 | And it's funny how we like to think that, well, you know, everybody's got it better than we do. |
| 1:30.8 | Pip has done a wonderful job in this book of showing us that not only sometimes do people not have it as good as we do, but maybe people are a little bit more nefarious than we like to think. |
| 1:44.4 | She shows us a lot about people's duality. |
| 1:48.0 | So we've brought Pip in today to talk about the book, which is out today. |
| 1:53.9 | And I encourage you to go get this book. |
| 1:55.6 | It's a wonderful book, a wonderful story. |
| 1:57.5 | We're going to talk about it here in the program today. |
| 2:00.3 | Our guest today, Pip Drysdale, is an author, musician, an actress. about it here in the program today. Our guest today, |
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