Making It Up with Elka Ray, author of A Friend Indeed

Carter Wilson's Making It Up

Elka Ray is a Canadian/UK author, and a former journalist and travel writer, who writes fiction for adults and children. She is the author of the romantic mysteries Divorce is Murder, Killer Coin, and Hanoi Jane, and is also the author of her newest Women’s Noir, A Friend Indeed. She has also written a collection of short crime and ghost stories set in Southeast Asia, What You Don’t Know.

Among other things, Elka and Carter discuss moving to unfamiliar places when young, balancing resolutions at the end of suspense novels, and the implications of jumping between genres. At the end of their conversation, they make up a journalistic-style story using a line from James Proud’s Unusual Ways to Die: History's Weirdest Deaths.