I was recently asked in an interview with Rose City Reader how I came to write A Small Fortune after spending years writing more literary works under a different name. This was my answer:

I read an article in the NYT about how well genre books were weathering the recession. I had never tried to write a genre book and half-jokingly toyed with the idea. My husband and I made up a ridiculous plot over dinner that night and the next day I began to write, still half-jokingly, the story we had cracked ourselves up with over a bottle of wine. The joke was really on me. The novel ran out of me like a spell flushed out from god knows where. A Small Fortune is more mainstream (even literary) than genre and not even close to the story my husband and I made up, but it is the result of that funny conversation.

A Small Fortune is now a bestseller on amazon kindle in both literary fiction and mystery.

I have lived all over the US and Europe but now reside in the Pacific Northwest with my family of boys and dogs.

www.audreybraun.com

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