Lisa Scottoline Visits Writer’s Corner
We are excited today to have Lisa visit and share her new novel Keep Quiet . We discuss writing, the concept for Keep Quiet, and her plans for the future. Where did the idea for Keep Quiet come from? The idea for this novel was a classic what-if, which occurred to me as I was driving down a street similar to the one in the book, which is near my house. Every time I round the curve of this particular street, which has a dangerous blind curve, I think, what if somebody was here and I hit them? What if my kid were driving and my kid hit them? What would I do? What should I do? What I love about this novel is that it concerns a decision that a parent could make at any time, which raises a predicament that they never would have anticipated. There is a big theme of choices throughout the book, why did you feel it was important to choose to take on such an moral topic of right & wrong? I love to write about choices, becaus...