1–What is the title of your latest release? THE VIOLENCE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Three generations of women escape the cycle of abuse during a pandemic that causes random bouts of animalist violence. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I was living in Tampa at the time, and mosquitoes were a constant annoyance. It made perfect sense to create a disease spread by mosquitoes and set it in my sunny suburb. Once I started writing, I felt a wave of paranoia every time a mosquito landed on me… which was often! 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? There are three POVs: Chelsea, her daughter Ella, and her mother, Patricia. Chelsea and I don’t have much in common, and Patricia and I would hate each other, but I would’ve been friends with Ella when I was in high school. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? For Chelsea—victim (at the beginning), mother, fighter (at the end) 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I grew up with the kind of domestic violence Chelsea and Ella experience in the beginning of the book. Writing it was…