The Writing Table with Kris Clink

Nick Petrie Talks Thrillers, Tree Climbers, Cocaine Bear-Plus a Sneak Peek at The Dark Time

Nick Petrie Season 6 Episode 57

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Inspiration doesn't always find authors at their desk, and it doesn't give a darn about deadlines. Where does a creative go when the muse is silent? 

Nick Petrie's back at the Writing Table. He shares his secrets to writing adventure-filled thrillers and provides accessible tactics everyone can use to to refill their creative well. 

*Plus* a peek at what goes into his Peter Ash novels. This is a fun episode, y'all. 

Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. His story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in The Seattle Review, and his  first novel, The Drifter, won the ITW Thriller and Barry Awards. It was also nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Hammett Awards. He won the 2016 Literary Award from the Wisconsin Library Association and was named one of Apple’s 10 Writers to Read in 2017. Light It Up was named the Best Thriller of 2018 by Apple Books. Light it Up, The Wild One and The Price You Pay were shortlisted for the Barry Award. A husband and father, he has worked as a carpenter, remodeling contractor, and building inspector.  He lives in Milwaukee, where he is hard at work on the next Peter Ash novel. His latest novel is THE DARK TIME. 

Learn more at nickpetrie.com 

Special thanks to NetGalley for early previews. 

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