Dreams that died quickly, and by high school I decided I wanted to work in resorts. What were your career goals as a kid/young adult? Self-publishing is the only reason I now have 24 books under my belt, three traditional publishing contracts, a movie, and books in over thirty countries. If it weren’t for those possibilities, I would never have had the confidence to go through the traditional query process and submit that novel to publishers and agents. I fell into writing on a bit of a whim – I wrote a book one summer when I was in between jobs, right after I learned the possibilities that were available through self-publishing. While I had embraced and enjoyed writing assignments in school, I never had any confidence in my ability and was never encouraged by my teachers. The different pen names help to differentiate the genres in reader minds. Torre for my suspense novels, and Alessandra for my romance novels (some of which contain suspense). Well, Alessandra Torre is a pseudonym also. Torre and another under as Alessandra Torre? And is there another secret-secret pseudonym out there? 😉 You’ ve written this book under a pseudonym-why did you choose to do that? How do you decide that you’ ll write one book under A.R. As the two couples lives become intertwined, secrets build, and things take a deadly turn. Their idyllic perfection is marred when a new couple moves in next door and a toxic friendship begins to form between the two wives. The story is about a golden couple who has everything: love, happiness, and exorbitant wealth. When I’m not writing romance novels or psychological suspense, I teach others about writing and marketing.Ĭan you tell readers about the plot in Every Last Secret ? My name is Alessandra (AR) Torre, I am a wife, mother, author, and tech startup exec.

Would you please give us a short intro to who you are and what you write? Torre, a pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Alessandra Torre, who has captivated readers all over world with more than twenty novels of romance and suspense. Complex and thorny questions about marriage, fidelity and domestic security are at the crux of Every Last Secret, a mesmerising new thriller by A.R.

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