Mary Kubica
Author Interview - Mary Kubica
Author of The Other Mrs., When the Lights Go Out, and She's Not Sorry
About She’s Not Sorry:
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
Author Interview - Mary Kubica
Author I draw inspiration from:
Natalie Babbitt
Author Interview - Mary Kubica | Author I draw inspiration from
Favorite place to read a book:
On my sofa with a cat on my lap
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with:
Frederick Henry from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. I fell hard for him.
Author Interview - Mary Kubica | Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author:
As kids, my cousin and I were at a sleepover at our grandparents' house. She showed me a story she'd written and I was completely smitten with it. I wanted to try my hand at writing too, and haven't stopped since.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook:
Paperback
The last book I read:
Nicole Baart's You Were Always Mine. Loved it!
Author Interview - Mary Kubica | The last book I read
Pen & paper or computer:
Computer
Book character I think I’d be best friends with:
Karma Brown has a knack for creating beautiful female friendships in her novels. I'd be best friends with any of her protagonists.
Author Interview - Mary Kubica | Book character I think I’d be best friends with
If I wasn’t an author, I’d be a:
Teacher
Favorite decade in fashion history:
This one. Though I know I'll look back in twenty years and cringe at what I was wearing.
Place I’d most like to travel:
Ireland
My signature drink:
Riesling
Favorite artist:
Damien Rice
Number one on my bucket list:
See the Northern Lights
About Mary Kubica:
Author Interview - Mary Kubica
Mary Kubica is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many suspense novels, including THE GOOD GIRL, PRETTY BABY, DON’T YOU CRY, EVERY LAST LIE, WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT, THE OTHER MRS., LOCAL WOMAN MISSING and JUST THE NICEST COUPLE.
A former high school history teacher, Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in History and American Literature. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and two children.
Her first novel THE GOOD GIRL was an Indie Next pick in August of 2014, received a Strand Critics Nomination for Best First Novel and was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards in Debut Goodreads Author and in Mystery & Thriller for 2014.
LOCAL WOMAN MISSING was an Indie Next pick in May of 2021, a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards in Mystery & Thriller for 2021, and a finalist for an Audie Award.
Mary’s novels have been selected as Amazon Best Books of the Month and have been LibraryReads selections. They’ve been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. She’s been described as “a helluva storyteller,” (Kirkus Reviews) and “a writer of vice-like control,” (Chicago Tribune), and her novels have been praised as “hypnotic” (People) and “thrilling and illuminating” (Los Angeles Times). She is currently working on her next novel.
