Making It Up with Kate White, author of I Came Back For You

About this episode

Kate White discusses her career as a bestselling author and her experiences at Cosmo.

"I loved it... Cosmo was a fabulous job in every sense of the word. It was like being on a television show everyday... but I could start to see, wow, this is all collapsing... I'd already written eight of my thrillers and mysteries while I was at Cosmo. I thought I'm going to get out while I still have the chance." — Kate White Kate White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nineteen novels of suspense: 11 standalone psychological thrillers and eight Bailey Weggins ...

People in this episode

Host: Carter Wilson

Guest: Kate White

Topics covered

• thrillers
• mysteries
• publishing
• career transitions
• writing process

Keywords

• Kate White
• thrillers
• mysteries
• Cosmo
• writing
• publishing
• career

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cosmo

Books & works: I Came Back For You

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