Katsu told us, “As the books progress, they get more magical and less in the realm of realism. After Adair escaped, she was convinced he was going to hunt her down and seek revenge. When Lanore McIlvrae entombed Adair two hundred years ago, she did it to save Jonathan, the man she thought was the love of her life. It jumps in and out of time, it has POV and time shifts, but I finished it and it sold to Simon and Schuster, where it got named one of the top ten debuts of the year.” “I rewrote that book thirteen times because it’s a complex book. It’s actually based on a short story that I wrote when I was in my twenties that I couldn’t stop thinking about,” Katsu said. Love may be immortal, but that bond chained Lanny to a terrible fate that she’s desperate to escape. But the price she pays for that love is steep. When she was a young girl at the turn of the nineteenth century, she was in love with the founder’s son. Lanny tells Luke a story of love and betrayal. “It’s a sweeping, dark, epic historical love story.” “The inspiration was Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, but it’s not a vampire book,” Katsu said. Luke Findley is inexplicably drawn to her. Even though she’s suspected of murder, Dr. Andrew, Maine in the middle of the night. Lanore McIlvrae is brought into the rural ER in St. Related: 32 Horror Authors Every Scare-Chaser Needs to Know We were thrilled to sit down with Katsu and talk about her career and her many books as well as discover why The Fervor is her most personal book yet. I lean towards being a more literary writer and I do think there’s a potential for more depth in stories.” That's what we're trained to do, assess, and educate. “I try not to be too preachy about it, but that's the intelligence analyst in me.

“I write very character-driven books and they tend to have a theme in them,” she said.

And since then, she has written in a wide range of genres ranging from dark fantasy to historical horror. Katsu’s debut novel, The Taker, was released in 2011. So, I went back to graduate school and literally wrote every day.” “But when I was forty, I reassessed what I wanted to do with my life, and I wanted to really learn how to really write a novel. “I grew up wanting to be a novelist, but I got the opportunity to work in the intelligence community after college,” Katsu said. She began as an intelligence analyst before deciding to shift her career and become a writer.

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