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Kate White is an American writer, magazine editor, and speaker. She served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan from 1998 to 2012. She is also a critically acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction books, including I Shouldn't Be Telling You This , 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want, Lethally Blond, and Hush.
White currently resides in Manhattan with her husband and two children. She is also the editor of The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook.
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You're the author of two highly acclaimed non-fiction books for women
on getting ahead in their careers. Why did you decide to turn to writing murder
mysteries?
I've wanted to be a murder mystery writer ever since I was in my early
20's. I fell in love with Nancy Drew books when I was 12 and later became
addicted to reading all kinds of mysteries, from English cozies to hardboiled
private eye stuff. I soon began having a fantasy about writing my own. But I
also loved women's magazines and over time I worked my way up in that field. A
few years ago when I was the editor-in-chief of Redbook, a woman applying to be
our astrology expert read my palm and said that there were two aspects to me:
the side that wanted to have a job that involved sitting in the corner office
and running things, and a side that needed to do something purely creative. I
decided right then to make the time to write a murder mystery.
No sooner did I get started with it, however, when I encountered one of those
mixed blessings in life, I was offered the Cosmo job. It was a fantastic
opportunity, but it required 100 percent of my concentration. I didn't feel I
should be channeling my creative energy elsewhere, so I ...
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