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Clare calls TB the resident curmudgeon, and TB wants that on a T-shirt because it’ll make her happy.
TB is still struggling on the writing front and wants listeners to weigh in. Who will cross the finish line first: JJ or Lizzie? In marketing news, to help promote her latest release, The Date, TB ran a freebie on The Setup, and in the back of the ebook, there was a sample of The Date with a buy button. This helped nudge The Date to number 1 in lesbian romance. Meaning, the effort of freshening up the back matter in books is having a positive impact, although redoing all the intros and outros to the backlist has been tedious and is far from over.
Clare is nearly done with Big London Dreams, but she befuddles TB by talking about being decimalized, which makes TB picture terrible things, not decimals. In big effing deal news, Clare worked out she’s published 1.5 million words in her seven-year career. And, in the past week, Clare’s decided she loves being a writer. (Apparently, she didn’t get the memo about today’s episode being dedicated to misery.) In translation news, the Portuguese edition of Before You Say I Do is up for presale. Toot, toot! In hard-to-believe news, Clare has booked a holiday outside of her home. TB really can’t comprehend that the world still exists.
They move on to the main topic: Are writers always miserable? Not surprisingly, TB came up with this topic. Since TB has been struggling with writing for weeks, in an effort to look for tips to unblock her brain, she discovered a great quote by Dorothy Parker about writing making a person miserable. TB could totally relate. She provides the backstory to the theory that writers are miserable, while Clare came at this question in a very Clare way: with humor.
Do you think all writers are miserable?
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Next week, they’ll be back with a mystery topic. (Yes, they once again forgot to come up with one ahead of time. It’s like they’re newbies to this.)
Happy listening!
Clare and TB
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