It took about a month from start to finish. “Almost everybody answered, and I got a few offers of representation. “I made a list of about 25 agents and sent out queries,” she says. After completing Darling Rose Gold, Wrobel, who is 32, searched Publishers Marketplace and Duotrope to find agents interested in the genre that she refers to as domestic suspense. “You really learn the art of concision when you have to write a billboard that has no more than six words.” “Advertising helped me as a writer tremendously,” Wrobel says. Scott Fitzgerald, Joe Heller, and Fay Weldon, she started out in advertising. She got her MFA from Emerson College in 2018. Wrobel grew up in Chicago and currently lives in London.

I don’t know whether it was in my subconscious, but that character name came to me quite early.” Was it intentional that the real-life Gypsy Rose and the fictional Rose Gold have similar names? “No.

“One of the things that convinced me to write the book was the question of whether they know what they’re doing or whether they think they’re doing what’s best for their kid,” Wrobel says. In the novel, Patty has no idea what motivates her. The perpetrators are usually mothers motivated by a desire for attention from the medical community.” “It’s almost inconceivable that mothers would do this to their children. “The mother-child bond is supposed to be sacred,” the author says from the Minneapolis airport, where she was in the midst of a prepublicity tour for the novel. Wrobel became fascinated by the topic when a friend, a school psychologist, told her she suspected some students had MSBP. Narrated in alternating chapters, the mother-daughter dynamic takes a wicked turn.

But Rose Gold is no dummy, and she’s learned mendacity from a pro. Despite this, Patty’s seemingly forgiving daughter picks her up when she’s released from jail and welcomes her into her new home.

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