Lower Nazareth Township author signing copies of thriller in Easton

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/nazareth/index.ssf/2012/12/lower_nazareth_author_to_sign.html FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES Author Kate Moretti likes to keep the settings of her books close to home. Moretti’s first thriller, “Thought I Knew You,” was set in Clinton. Her second, a crime mystery and still in the works, will be set in Harrisburg. Moretti lives in Lower Nazareth Township. “It's a small, little quaint town,” Moretti said of Clinton. “It’s a close knit community.” Moretti, 35, who graduated from Easton Area High School in 1996, will be signing copies of “Thought I Knew You” on Sunday at Connexions Gallery, 213 Northampton St., Easton. “A lot of people are at least interested,” said Anthony Marraccini, Connexions Gallery manager, about the book. “A lot of people have been asking about it.” The book centers around a woman named Claire who works in the pharmaceutical industry whose husband, Greg, vanishes in the first sentence. The rest of the book uncovers secrets about Greg that Claire never knew. Moretti, an associate scientist for Johnson & Johnson, admits Claire Barnes is a fictional version of herself. However, fictional Greg is nothing like her husband, Charles, also a 1996 Easton High graduate, she said with a laugh. “I thought I will just make the main character exactly like me and then I thought, ‘What is the craziest thing that could ever happen to me?,’” she asked. “Then I thought, what if my husband vanished?” Moretti began writing when classmate and fellow author Sarah DiCello, had just finished her first book, “As I Close My Eyes.” Moretti, a mother of two, said she was inspired. “I thought what she did was amazing and I always wanted to do it,” she said. When her children found naps, she found an outlet to write and joined an online forum of writers. There, professional writers read her pages and offered feedback. The next step was sending in a manuscript to independent publishing company Red Adept Publishing. After five drafts and several other revisions, which include revising the book’s title and dropping a second main character, her book was released by the publisher in September 2012. It’s now available on www.amazon.com and local bookstores. Moretti promises a surprise at the end of the book. “There’s definitely a twist,” she said. *** If you go: Lower Nazareth resident Kate Moretti will be signing copies of “Thought I Knew You” at 2 p.m. Sunday at Connexions Gallery, 213 Northampton St., Easton. Other signings are scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 21 at the Clinton Book Shop, 12 E. Main St., Clinton and and 1 p.m. Jan 12 at the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem. For more information about Moretti, visit http://www.facebook.com/katemorettiwriter and http://katemoretti.blogspot.com/. Sponsored Links