I went to hear author Emily Giffin talk last night and she was amazing! She grew up in the Chicago suburbs, went to law school, hated being a lawyer, quit, moved to London to write, gave herself a year deadline and managed to produce a New York Times best-selling chick lit book. That book was just optioned for movie rights, she's published two others and is working on a fourth.
I love that story.
I also enjoyed the chocolate cupcake with pink frosting, chit-chatting with other writers, and going out afterward for an Espressotini.
mood: inspired, motivated
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About Me
- Karen
- Quit my day job to write a book. I might be insane, but probably only dangerous to myself.
4 comments:
Ah, the glamorous life of chick-lit writers!
That's right. I'm definitely not sitting here in my pajamas with no makeup on crying because I can't find a crucial post-it.
I read Something Borrowed. The writing was good and I wanted to like it. I just could not get behind the heroine. She slept with her friend's fiance and the rest of the book is her wanting him but feeling guilty. I don't care how perfect they were for each other. I guess I have zero tolerance for cheaters.
I'm still tempted to read the other one, which I guess starts where the other leaves off, but from the betrayed friend's perspective.
I'd like to read her again if there was a book that didn't turn me off morally. Glad she inspired you.
That's what Linda said about the Borrowed book. Maybe I'm morally corrupt enough that it won't bother me...
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