In today’s BFF Book Club episode, I’m chatting with romantic suspense author Natalie Walters about our August pick, Spies, Lies, and Alibis. Natalie takes us behind the scenes of this Mr. & Mrs. Smith-inspired story and shares how she found her way to romantic suspense, what makes an idea worthy of becoming a novel, and why authenticity matters even in a story filled with spies, secrets, and high-stakes situations.
Episode Highlights:
How Natalie found her way into writing romantic suspense and the inspiration behind Spies, Lies, and Alibis.
Why “not every idea is a story and not every story idea works,” and how she determines which ideas are worth pursuing.
Her desire to create stories that feel authentic and believable, even when the circumstances are larger than life.
Why “there has to be a cost to the decisions a character makes, one way or the other.”
Balancing suspense, romance, and humor to create the kind of escape that makes readers think, “That was so fun, let’s do it again.”
Trusting readers to fill in the“Not every idea is a story and not every story idea works.”
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