Hi,
Sorry - I promised you Q&A from Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton, and then I disappeared. I actually went to LA for the annual book industry trade show, called Book Expo. More on that later. First, here's question & answer #1 from Lauren:
Q: How long did the book take to write?
A: From the first sentence of the first draft to when I gave it to my agent, it took about three-and-a-half years to write Monsters...add in another year for editing (and ongoing edits that I wish I could make every time I read it...but can't!), and you have a good part of my adult life. In a real sense, though, I have been working on this book my whole life--I've been storing up stories and tall-tales and characters since I first started writing seriously (every day) when I was fourteen. But it wasn't until I was living in California, very hungry for my hometown, that I sat down (after having written two very massively failed previous novels) to write about Cooperstown.
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As Holden Caulfield famously said, sometimes you like a book so much, you wish you could just pick up the phone and give the author a call. That’s what this blog is all about. In tribute to J.D. Salinger’s indelible protagonist from The Catcher in the Rye, I’m going to contact authors whose books I’ve been reading, and ask them questions about their work, which I will then share with you in this blog. Feel free to post questions of your own in the comments section. Read on!
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As Holden Caulfield famously said, sometimes you like a book so much, you wish you could just pick up the phone and give the author a call. That’s what this blog is all about. In tribute to J.D. Salinger’s indelible protagonist from The Catcher in the Rye, I’m going to contact authors whose books I’ve been reading, and ask them questions about their work, which I will then share with you in this blog. Feel free to post questions of your own in the comments section. Read on!
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About Me
- Lynn Rosen
- Philadelphia, PA, United States
- I’m a published author and book industry professional with twenty-five years of experience as an editor and literary agent. I teach college publishing classes and adult ed book discussion classes. I'm currently working on my first novel.
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Lynn's List
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
- The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
- The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
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