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May.20.2013
The Moment I Got Annoyed: I read the news that there was an anthology coming out called This is Not Chick Lit. The idea behind the collection was that there were too many pink books out there, crowding the bookstores, making it impossible for those looking to read more literary efforts from...
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May.19.2013
The Moment I Stumbled Into YA: Writers write, so I started writing a new novel, chasing an idea that had caught my fancy. But, me being me, the book I started to write was like nothing I’d written before. Angel’s Choice is about a girl on the fast track for Yale who, on the eve of her senior...
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May.18.2013
The Moment I Got Agent 5: An agent read Z: A Novel and fell in love with Zorro, which I appreciated. A comedy writer shouldn’t laugh at her own jokes, nor should she boast about her own creation, but I couldn’t help it, I was in love with Zorro too. So when Agent 5 offered to represent me,...
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May.17.2013
The Moment I Wrote Even Faster: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has long been my favorite novel by a dead author. I was reading it for the umpteenth time when the thought occurred to me that I’d like to do my own re-visioning of it, only mine would be a contemporary comedy-drama...
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May.16.2013
The Moment I Let Agent 4 Go: At one point, my publisher had asked if I’d write a short story for their website as a freebie for readers, a promotional incitement. They were willing to pay me three thousand dollars for it. So I did. If you don’t know much about the story market, back in...
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May.14.2013
The Moment I Realized Something Was Wrong: Crossing the Line was about to pub and I noticed a strange thing – there were no reviews from the pre-pub trade magazines. This struck me as strange. Not every book gets reviewed by any means, but I had been a reviewer for one of the pre-pub trades...
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May.13.2013
The Moment I Realized Just How Great Adriana Trigiani Is: I was at Book Expo America in late Spring 2004 because Crossing the Line was due to be published in a month or so. Scheduled to do a signing in my publisher’s booth in an hour, I was part of a long line waiting to have Adriana...
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May.11.2013
The Moment I Wrote A Book Really Fast: So it was the end of August and I needed to come up with and write a book that was due to be published 11 months later. That’s when I had my epiphany. Having never intended to write a sequel to The Thin Pink Line, which to me had completely addressed...
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May.10.2013
The Moment The Royal Family Screwed Me Over...Again: Book 1 was out, it was the end of summer and we were working on getting Book 2 ready for the following July, Book 2 being Falling for Prince Charles, my alternative-universe romantic comedy about a Jewish cleaning lady who falls in love...
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May.09.2013
The Moment I Realized Some Things Point North: One fun thing about being an author, if you’re lucky, is seeing foreign editions released of your book and the various covers your book winds up with. The Thin Pink Line was published in several countries, including England, France, Italy, Poland, The...
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May.08.2013
The Moment I Got An Option: My agent got in touch to say that a small production company wanted to place an option on The Thin Pink Line. I would get X up front, then Y if a TV movie got made or Z if it became a film. Really, it all sounded good to me. Here was this book that my previous agent hadn...
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May.07.2013
The Moment I Was Almost On TV: A woman at a TV station about an hour from me got in touch to say she wanted to interview me on a particular Friday in August – hey, I wanted that too! But a few days before the event, I began itching all over and breaking out in little red spots, so I went to the...
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May.03.2013
The Moment I Was Glad I Hadn’t: Most published writers know the moment. Your book is out there, it’s up on Amazon, a nasty review pops up, or there aren’t enough reviews, or you have plenty of reviews but you’re greedy and just want one more, and you think to yourself, ‘I’ll just post a...
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May.02.2013
The Moment One Person Showed Up: So there I was, on my way to doing an event at the local Barnes and Noble, which had asked me to come. [It feels important to emphasize that they asked me, I didn’t ask them, so I can’t be accused of bringing this on myself.] I’d already done several events...
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May.01.2013
The Moment My Books Were Returned To Me: So there I was, doing one of my first signings at the Borders in Danbury. Before signing, I was giving a talk and reading, taking questions. A few minutes into the event, my daughter, three years old at the time, began doing a curious thing. One by...
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About Lauren
Before becoming a published novelist, I was an independent bookseller and buyer, a Publishers Weekly reviewer, a freelance editor, and a window washer. My first book was published in 2003 and by the end of 2012, I will have had 28 books published. My most...
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