English writer, Jeanette Winterson, says, “Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.”
I couldn’t agree more!
As a writer, it’s my job to tell stories and give my readers varying perspectives. Some of my favorite novelists, like Jodi Picoult and Khaled Hosseini, do this so well, and I’ve taken inspiration from them when choosing the stories to tell. My most recent novel, The Murder Lawyer, does this by telling the story of a young criminal defense attorney with an unswerving belief in justice who defends people accused of the most heinous crime: murder. In this novel, I challenge the ideas of justice by learning more about the people who committed the crimes. What happened? What were their motivations? Are they really guilty of what they’re accused of?
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