If you are a writer of fiction who is touching on any kind of fact-based thing in their writing (I guess some books do this more than others) at least if you are conscientious you live in fear of really getting something terribly wrong. Luckily I don’t write historical fiction, and while I don’t like to do hundreds of hours of research just to make sure that every thread laid down is correct (because really that is just a form of procrastination), I definitely don’t want anyone rolling their eyes or worse getting offended with something I’ve said because I’ve gotten it wrong (if they’re offended but not because I’ve gotten it wrong, I guess I don’t care..?)
A little while after the book was out, a curious email landed in my inbox—it was from a professor, Abigail Marsh, who studied psychopaths and is currently running a program to help them! And while she was typically skeptical of books that featured psychopaths, she was surprised to read an accurate representation of what life is like for them. I was overjoyed to hear this, and the below is a mutual interview of sorts, where she asks me about the book, and I ask her my burning questions about psychopathy, which include quite a few that readers as me, such as can psychopaths actually get better? Do they fall in love?
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