Caitlin Rother is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who has worked as an investigative reporter for nineteen years, for a variety of local newspapers. After a time, she decided to try her hand at writing books full-time.
In addition to being a novel writer, Ms. Rother is also the founder of the San Diego Writing Women blog. Caitlin Rother has many writing credits to her name, as well as having her work published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast.
Ms. Rother has appeared as a 
crime expert on E! Entertainment, the Oxygen Network, Investigation Discovery, Greta Van Susteren's "On the Record," and "America at Night." She also teaches journalism, narrative non-fiction and creative writing at UCSD Extension in San Diego.
Caitlin Rother is currently busy promoting her true crime novel, Dead Reckoning.
Please tell us a bit about your book and what you hope readers take away from reading it.
This is a quintessential story of good versus evil. Murder victim Tom Hawks was a former firefighter and retired probation officer after serving in the military along with his brother, who was a retired police chief. In contrast, Skylar Deleon, the man who killed Tom and his wife, Jackie, by tying them to an anchor and throwing them over the side of their yacht, grew up under the wing of a violent man who went to prison for drug-dealing and then taught his son how to lie, cheat and steal. But Skylar is also a complex character, whose gender confusion makes for quite a fascinating case study of a sociopath who loves his wife Jennifer so much he will do anything not to lose her – and yet wants a sex change operation so badly he’s willing to kill to pay for one. The murder-theft conspiracy scheme he devises with her is so heinous and callously carried out that it is mind-boggling.
Article comments
1 - Caitlin Rother
It's Caitlin Rother not Caitlin Roth...
2 - Christopher Rose
Caitlin, the typos have been fixed and the editor droid responsible disassembled.
3 - Alan Kurtz
What? Blogcritics publishes an interview with an author and misspells her name! If only there were editor droids at BC, they'd do a much better job than the primate "editors." Don't blame technology, blame entrenched human incompetence.
4 - Christopher Rose
Everybody is fallible, Alan, but sensible people just fix mistakes and move on.
5 - Alan Kurtz
And censors just delete my comments and move on. Business as usual.
6 - Christopher Rose
Alan, If you can't refrain from making personal attacks, then your comments will be edited or deleted. If you don't, they won't.
I'm sure you have grasped the principle, if not the practice, so the ball is in your court...
7 - Alan Kurtz
And what about the unsubstantiated accusation against me by a BC "editor" in ¶1 of comment #33 here? You give your fellow editors a free pass to attack me, but then uphold the strictest standards in censoring my own comments. If there's a principle involved here, then you're mistaken: I haven't grasped it.
8 - Christopher Rose
That issue is still under review, Alan, and I will make my decision as to what I consider the appropriate course of action in due course.
For your information, should you find yourself the target of what you may consider an infringement of the comments guidelines in the future, your case would be reinforced if you refrained from entering into debate with the potential infringer and contacted me as your first response.
9 - Alan Kurtz
OK, so I contacted you after I replied online. But then you failed to respond to my email! What a place.
10 - Christopher Rose
I haven't responded to your email because I don't have anything to say yet. When I do, I will.
11 - Alan Kurtz
Out of common courtesy, you might at least have acknowledged my email. But then, you have none of that, do you?
12 - Christopher Rose
Yes, I possibly could have done that, but I was rather expecting to be able to respond to you more swiftly than has in fact turned out to be the case.
As to common courtesy, I think reading all the comments we make here on this site will reveal which of us is the most civil...
13 - April
I am the writer/author of this interview, and I deeply apologize for any misspelling. I had caught myself and corrected "Roth" to "Rother" before hitting submit, but obviously missed another somewhere. Again, I am deeply sorry for this error.
April
14 - Christopher Rose
Don't worry too much, April, we all make mistakes and it has now been sorted out.