Prior to writing fiction, Kovac worked in television news, covering crime and politics at Fox 5’s Ten O’Clock News in Washington, DC, and after that as a news producer and desk editor at the Washington Bureau of NBC News.
She lives outside Washington DC with her family. She loves morning writes with her cat on her lap, book hauls from her town library, and hiking national parks. Her favorites—C&O Canal National Park, Assateague Island, and Rock Creek Park—provided inspiration for Watch Us Fall. She’s currently at work on her third novel.
Recently I asked Kovac about what she was reading. Her reply:
I am re-reading Crooks by Lou Berney. I read an advanced copy last summer before the crime novel published in September. I’m a huge Lou Berney fan since his November Road blew me away in 2018. Then I went back and read The Long and Faraway Gone, which was so beautiful to me, all his books are. I tend toVisit Christina Kovac's website.reread loved books when I’m really stressed—and it’s my pub week, so I’m really, really stressed! It’s relaxing to hear the music of his prose and feel the way he eases you into his character’s psyche. It’s my therapy.
The reason I picked up this particular Lou Berney book again: it’s a really insightful look at families and crime, and my book #3 in progress that I have to get back to (as soon as I’m done pub week) is also a book about families at war over a murdered girl. Mother-versus-mother type thing. Lou isn’t doing that in Crooks, but the family dynamics and psychology and shifting allegiances and sense of family crime-as-destiny is worth studying. Plus, it’s just a damn entertaining read, and I need that right now.
My Book, The Movie: The Cutaway.
The Page 69 Test: The Cutaway.
Writers Read: Christina Kovac (March 2017).
My Book, The Movie: Watch Us Fall.
The Page 69 Test: Watch Us Fall.
--Marshal Zeringue
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