Meanwhile The Taker was named a “Top Ten Debut Novel” by the American Library Association’s Booklist Magazine, and developed a solid following of readers, as well as its own fan club. “I talk to a lot of writers, a lot of whom are around 40, who think, ‘There is this long-held dream that I’ve had that if I don’t do it now then I never will’ – and I try to impress upon them that it’s a lot of work, you must be dedicated, and it probably won’t come to you in the first six months.”ĭuring the months between when she finished writing The Taker and when it was published by Gallery Books in 2011, Katsu came up with additional ideas for two other installments and successfully pitched them to her publisher. Katsu enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University graduate program in writing, where instructors taught her to approach developing her craft with a high level of seriousness and dedication. “I tried to pour as much energy into these books as I did into my career,” says Katsu, reflecting on her decision to begin writing fiction novels after 21 years of working for the National Security Agency (NSA). Katsu first began considering a second career as a fiction writer in 2003, around the same time that she and her husband, a musician, moved to Reston from Columbia, Md. She started working on her first book in the series, “The Taker,” 10 years ago while she was still working for the CIA. Katsu lives in Reston and splits her time between being an award-winning fantasy novelist and a senior analyst for the defense policy think tank RAND Corporation. The book is the third installment in “The Taker” trilogy, a series of paranormal fantasy novels set in both 19th century and modern New England. Reston author Alma Katsu’s newest book, “The Descent,” published by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books division, hit bookstore shelves on Jan.
Author Alma Katsu’s third book intertwines romance with historical fiction.
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