I've read so many LJ books...They are EXCELLENT company (and distraction!) as I train toward a 5k--my first in 1000 years....Music used to be my thing, but running is so hard--and the books are such page turners--that in my drive to learn what happens next, I sort of lose sight of the fact that running is HARD. Great interview--as always. D
Diana, that’s fascinating that audiobooks are even better motivators than music for you while you’re running! But I can definitely see how a page-turning Lisa Jewell thriller would keep you going.
A Lisa Jewell book is how I discovered I love reading thrillers. So it's very cool to hear her talk about her process. :) And so fun to learn that she has written in another genre (under the same name) before transitioning to this era of her writing.
Also, I love that being a successful author still allows normalcy. When I was a kid I so badly wanted to be famous. Now, my short bio for periodical writing is "wants to be widely read while remaining unrecognized at restaurants". 😂 Fame sounds exhausting.
Brilliant episode Evelyn. Great questions from you and the Creative Inspired Happy community and very generous responses from Lisa. Always so interesting (and comforting) to hear the varied writer’s processes to writing, plotting and character - affirming there’s a way through the writer’s woods for each of us!
Love Lisa’s intuitive approach that allows the story to build and develop momentum through 1000 words per day, trusting her process that allows ideas and plot points to gestate. That confidence and trust in her own ability to write good books has been established through a long and successful career (and an innate understanding of tension and story structure built over years of developing her craft) but nevertheless encourages writers to play a bit more with our plot and lean into discovery a bit more without a white knuckle grip on an outline (overcoming the twin obstacles of perfectionism and procrastination an outline can present!)
I’m so happy you felt that way about this episode, Jen! I agree whole-heartedly that it was such a treasure to have someone with such a successful and storied career as Lisa share how she is still “normal” and what works for her and what doesn’t!
Amazing interview! I’ve read two of LJ’s books by chance and can’t wait to read more but when I found out her debut was a rom com I’m intrigued and it’s been on my Audible wish list for a while.
Will more of your audiobooks be available in the UK, Evelyn?
I also felt like I ought to go check out one of her old rom coms, in part out of curiosity to see how Lisa has changed as a writer!
That’s a great question about my audiobooks in the UK… I don’t know? haha. I think The Incredible Kindness of Paper will be available in the UK in both print and audiobook, but I’m not sure about my backlist. It’s funny to have so many books out in different territories and lose track of what is where!
I preordered Paper and I’ve been able to buy the Juliet book. I see about three others (Damsel being one and Crown another) but I know you’ve written many more! 😅 not sure if you can push the publishers to get them all out! 🤣🤣🤣 Hoping to catch up on your backlist (available) this year. 🤞🏻
oh WOW that is really cool… That is honestly one of the wildest things about being an author. You write a book and it goes out there and finds people and sometimes you never find out and sometimes you find out like THIS, years later!!
I've read so many LJ books...They are EXCELLENT company (and distraction!) as I train toward a 5k--my first in 1000 years....Music used to be my thing, but running is so hard--and the books are such page turners--that in my drive to learn what happens next, I sort of lose sight of the fact that running is HARD. Great interview--as always. D
Diana, that’s fascinating that audiobooks are even better motivators than music for you while you’re running! But I can definitely see how a page-turning Lisa Jewell thriller would keep you going.
Fascinating for me, too. (How many times can a girl listen to Cuff It or Running Up That Hill?)
A Lisa Jewell book is how I discovered I love reading thrillers. So it's very cool to hear her talk about her process. :) And so fun to learn that she has written in another genre (under the same name) before transitioning to this era of her writing.
Also, I love that being a successful author still allows normalcy. When I was a kid I so badly wanted to be famous. Now, my short bio for periodical writing is "wants to be widely read while remaining unrecognized at restaurants". 😂 Fame sounds exhausting.
haha I LOVE your short bio! It’s perfect and how I also feel!
Brilliant episode Evelyn. Great questions from you and the Creative Inspired Happy community and very generous responses from Lisa. Always so interesting (and comforting) to hear the varied writer’s processes to writing, plotting and character - affirming there’s a way through the writer’s woods for each of us!
Love Lisa’s intuitive approach that allows the story to build and develop momentum through 1000 words per day, trusting her process that allows ideas and plot points to gestate. That confidence and trust in her own ability to write good books has been established through a long and successful career (and an innate understanding of tension and story structure built over years of developing her craft) but nevertheless encourages writers to play a bit more with our plot and lean into discovery a bit more without a white knuckle grip on an outline (overcoming the twin obstacles of perfectionism and procrastination an outline can present!)
I’m so happy you felt that way about this episode, Jen! I agree whole-heartedly that it was such a treasure to have someone with such a successful and storied career as Lisa share how she is still “normal” and what works for her and what doesn’t!
Amazing interview! I’ve read two of LJ’s books by chance and can’t wait to read more but when I found out her debut was a rom com I’m intrigued and it’s been on my Audible wish list for a while.
Will more of your audiobooks be available in the UK, Evelyn?
I also felt like I ought to go check out one of her old rom coms, in part out of curiosity to see how Lisa has changed as a writer!
That’s a great question about my audiobooks in the UK… I don’t know? haha. I think The Incredible Kindness of Paper will be available in the UK in both print and audiobook, but I’m not sure about my backlist. It’s funny to have so many books out in different territories and lose track of what is where!
I preordered Paper and I’ve been able to buy the Juliet book. I see about three others (Damsel being one and Crown another) but I know you’ve written many more! 😅 not sure if you can push the publishers to get them all out! 🤣🤣🤣 Hoping to catch up on your backlist (available) this year. 🤞🏻
You are my favorite person in the UK today!!!
I discovered you via Juliet a few years ago. Can’t even remember how now but then I found your Substack the rest is history and all that. 🤪
oh WOW that is really cool… That is honestly one of the wildest things about being an author. You write a book and it goes out there and finds people and sometimes you never find out and sometimes you find out like THIS, years later!!
Loved it of course — great premise!
🤣🤩🥳🫶🏻