Algoma author Bret Kissinger has a mystery for you to solve in his recently published new book titled The Final Edit. The book is about a woman who faced a horrible ordeal in college, escaped, and is now living a half-life in Chicago. Now working as an editor, she starts getting sample edits that have explicit details about her experience in college. She gets more and more of these letters, and she begins to realize the person who did this to her is still out there committing more crimes. Kissinger talks about his inspiration and how to accurately depict time periods in a story. 

Kissinger says people tell him to “write about what you know” but he finds it more interesting to find things that could happen to anyone and turn in into a mystery. Thinking about how as a writer himself, how would he react to getting sample edits of crimes that were committed on the news. He says it takes effort to turn an idea into a full story.

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