Lauren Baratz-Logsted | Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Mar.31.2013
The Moment I Thought My Book Was Going To Be A Movie: When I originally signed with Agent 2, she asked if I would mind that people would inevitably compare If You Should Die Before I Wake to Larry McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment. While both books involve a grown daughter predeceasing her...
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Mar.30.2013
The Moment I Got The Idea For My Sixth Book: In the late Spring of 1999, my husband and I had been married for 10 years, had been together 16 years as a couple. We’d wanted to have kids but had both been told it was highly unlikely and had long given up on that dream. Then one day, I missed...
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Mar.29.2013
The Moment I Realized Just How Popular Author Appearances Can Be: When I got the library job, I did inherit some events that were already on the books, one of which was an author talk by Darin Strauss, whose debut novel Chang and Eng had made a huge splash. It was a Sunday in April, the...
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Mar.28.2013
The Moment I Talked My Way Into A Fourth Part-Time Job: PW reviewer; freelance editor; window washer – three part-time jobs and I still wasn’t making enough money to keep the mortgage paid while trying to get published, so when I saw an opening listed in the paper for a job at the library...
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Mar.27.2013
The Moment I Realized Maybe I Had Something With Book 5: I sent a query letter for If You Should Die Before I Wake out to 10 agents. Nine wrote back asking to see the completed manuscript. Eventually, I went with an agent out West, henceforth to be known as Agent 2.
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Mar.26.2013
The Moment I Wrote My Fifth Novel: Having written four books that were essentially comedies, even if some of that comedy was pretty dark and two were mysteries, I decided to try my hand at something different. If You Should Die Before I Wake is about a blue-collar septuagenarian from...
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Mar.25.2013
The Moment I Booked Some People On Good Morning, America: Subsidy publishers have a bad rep, but the one that had hired me as an editor was determined to do right by their clients by providing professional packaging and actually paying an editor to edit the books, unlike most subsidy houses...
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Mar.24.2013
The Moment I Talked My Way Into A Third Part-Time Job: So I had my job reviewing books for PW and my job washing windows, but it still wasn’t enough money, so when I saw an ad in the paper for a job as a freelance editor I figured I’d give it a go, even though I’d never been an editor before...
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Mar.23.2013
The Moment I Wrote My Fourth Novel: My fourth novel was the quirkiest yet. Titled Plain Sight, it was like Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians in that it featured 10 characters getting bumped off one at a time, in increasingly grisly fashion, only in my book: 1) the majority of the...
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Mar.22.2013
The Moment I Realized My Third Novel Was Funny, Not In A Good Way: Somewhere along the way, I’d managed to acquire one high-up publishing executive who read all three of my early novels. Her conclusion: “Let’s see...in your first book, you insulted chain bookstores; in your second, you...
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