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I interviewed Anna David almost two years ago when her first novel came out. Her second novel, Bought, comes out today, and Anna was kind enough to send me a copy and agree to another interview. Bought is a fictional account of a journalist who gets sucked into the world of high-class prostitution as she’s writing about it. Here’s how Anna approched her second book, got published in the New York Times, and more…
Urban Muse: When you were researching the article that inspired Bought, how did you get the women to trust you and open up? Did you actually use Emma’s strategy of pretending to be one of them?Anna: No, I never did try to pretend I was one of them — I’m not nearly that ballsy, desperate, or whatever it would take. But I found that once one person had vouched for me, people just opened up. [...]

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Susan Johnston)