Elise is a consummate writer and teacher. She writes Detective Mystery novels that are a lot of fun, and adventurous. Chase Harlem will kick your butt. Don’t try it. I have to immediately note that I kept coming back to character development with her. Her experience as a theater and drama teacher, who has written scripts and plays kept me digging into that. You’ll like this conversation if you work on personalities in your writing, and enjoy reading them. Well, you’re here, so I figure you’re also into that kind of thing.
Read this, from her website, and you’ll understand where she gets her penchant for crime stories:
Elise Burke Brown comes from a family of detectives, including a grandfather who filled her childhood with true crime stories she learned not to repeat at daycare. Her novel, Chase Harlem, won the grand prize for the Monroe-Walton Center for the Arts New Writers Contest 2021 as well as the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Unpublished Investigator Novel. After winning, Rising Action Publishing acquired the novel and its sequel, which was a Top Pick for the 2024 Claymore Award. Elise has had stories and poetry published in Sojourn Literary Magazine, Dewpoint Literary Magazine, The Moonlit Road, and Southern Quill. She’s also sold stories to the podcast, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. She teaches composition at the University of Alabama and runs the book blog, coupleofbeesread. She is represented by Rachel Beck of Liza Dawson Associates, and her thriller, High Tides and Homicides, is currently on submission.
One of the things we discussed in this interview is the role of AI as it’s being prioritized in our economy. An article was referenced. This is the link to that article from Futurism: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-incapable-math. Do any search online for AI mistakes and you’ll find dozens of articles. A sub theme of TAOTB is confronting the post-human narrative. FYI.
I have the best guests.
On a personal note I want to thank everyone who followed me through my Third Annual Flash Fiction February Marathon at easytopia! I had a riot, as usual. There will be more intermittent stories and Flash August Fiction, of course.
