GET TO KNOW: Bestselling Author Sandra Brown

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with the incredible Sandra Brown, author of 77 New York Times bestsellers. 

Sandra shares the story of how getting fired from a TV job before she turned 30 became a major blessing. She reveals how she found the courage to set up a card table with a typewriter and begin a career that completely changed her life. 

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Episode Highlights

•   She represented thriller writers on USO tours in Afghanistan and Guantanamo. 

•   She breaks down her writing process and how she uncovers the "aha" moment for her plots. 

•   She shares how she develops characters and why she occasionally changes their names or genders halfway through a manuscript. 

•   She provides a deep dive into her book Bloodlust and the return of the fan-favorite character Mitch Haskell. 

•   She offers indispensable advice to aspiring authors about doing their homework on basic plotting and story structure. 

Connect with Sandra Brown

•   TikTok: @officialSandraBrown

•   Instagram: @authorsandrabrown 

•   Facebook: Sandra Brown 

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Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-seven New York Times bestsellers, including Out of Nowhere, Overkill, Blind Tiger, Thick As Thieves, Seeing Red, Outfox, Tailspin, Sting and Mean Streak. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Brown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University, where she instituted the Excellence in Literary Fiction, or ELF, a scholarship awarded annually to a creative writing student. She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America, and in 2008 she was named Thriller Master, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other honors include the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.