I also did a lot of marketing writing and that was probably more useful ultimately because it kept me exercising my writing muscles (where are the writing muscles exactly?). I had to learn point of view and plotting and how to make stuff up. I had to learn to use the soup spoon and the butter knife. The journalism training probably hurt more than it helped, actually, because fiction writing requires an entirely different table setting of utensils and I had been writing with a fork my whole life. That would have required talking on the phone to strangers, and I try to avoid talking on the phone to strangers as much as possible. But I was never on staff anywhere and I never actually did any reporting. I wrote freelance copy for alt weeklies and a first-person weekly column for The Oregonian. TSM: Did your journalistic career have an influence on your writing?CC: I have a graduate degree in journalism, but I wouldn’t say I was ever a journalist. Let’s just say that it will be the beginning of an interesting partnership. Now she is approached by a stranger named Bishop who wants her to help him rescue two missing kids. Her abductor taught her the criminal trade, the cop who rescued her taught her self-defense, and she has made herself a master of both. Now she is twenty-one, infamous because of the case and in possession of a unique skill set. Kick was abducted when she was six and rescued five years later. TSM: Tell us about One Kick.CC: One Kick is the first book in my new Kick Lannigan thriller series.
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