Making It Up with Ellery Adams, author of Invasive Species

Making It Up with Ellery Adams, author of Invasive Species

July 2, 2026 · 52 min · Season 1 · Episode 240

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Carter Wilson interviews bestselling author Ellery Adams about the portrayal of violence in literature and its emotional impact.

"I don't like when violence is trivialized in any genre... someone's dead, like the little jokes or the puns or the whatever, it doesn't work for me... I can't buy into that atmosphere. There has to be… it's not even a ripple effect. It's a freaking tsunami when there's a violent death. So let the storm come, you know, I want to see it. I want to feel it." — Ellery Adams Ellery Adams is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of over 40 novels, including the Books by the Bay...

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