Her suspense-filled film "The Hurt Locker," about a bomb disposal unit in Baghdad, took home prizes for best picture and best director at the Critics Choice Awardss on Friday, The Associated Press reported.
In order to write "Committed," she had to spin a book-length narrative out of her thoughts about marriage already much discussed in "Eat, Pray, Love" and her suspense-free decision to marry a man with whom she was madly in love.
Even if you've never heard of her, or never read any and don't intend to, you've probably already come across her, in some way, shape or form, perhaps through one of her pseudonymous suspense novels (published under the name Rosamond Smith), or the film of her book Foxfire, starring the very enhanced Angelina Jolie.
Without forsaking her all-purpose heroine or altering the basic plot dynamics for placing her in peril, this savvy author always comes up with something unexpected to give her standard suspense formula a new kick.
She sold her first suspense novel in 1975 for $3,000.
"Atlanta had a long history of spree and serial murders," Amanda Kyle Williams reminds us in her first suspense novel, THE STRANGER YOU SEEK (Bantam, $25).
Her first suspense novel, "Where Are the Children?" published in 1975, has gone into 70 printings and has sold too many millions of copies for her agent or publisher to estimate.
I kept her in suspense for about 10 minutes.
If you love a woman, don't keep her in suspense unnecessarily.
Keep her in suspense for as long as possible (sensibly though).
