True Confessions about Made-Up Things
It’s unusual for Karin to have an actor in mind to play one of her characters. An exception is Marissa’s mother in Finders Keepers. The “step up on the table in the country club dining room to make an announcement” personality – it’s so Meryl Streep. If she were unavailable then Helen Mirren would do it justice as well.
Only one real life experience has been a featured event in one of Karin’s books: the chili pepper oil scene in Car Pool. Karin was the one in the bath tub hoping for relief. The French edition of the novel even features red chili peppers on the cover.
Half tongue-in-cheek Victorian novel and half modern day erotic horror, Castle Wrath features one of Karin’s ditziest heroines, whose ignorance about the United Kingdom’s nations is all too common among her countrywomen.