How Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner Writes: Part Two

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of 12 books, Jennifer Weiner, took a few minutes to talk with me about the writer’s life, her new memoir, and Revenge of the Nerds. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today!Before her prolific career as a novelist, Ms. Weiner started out as a small town newspaper reporter and freelancer, before signing her first big book deal for her novel Good in Bed (2001). Since then her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, she has had a novel made into a major motion picture — In Her Shoes, starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette (2005) — contributed op-eds to the New York Times, executive produced a TV series, and published a children’s book (The Littlest Bigfoot). Her latest offering is the memoir Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, and it “… is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.” If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. If you missed the first half you can find it right here. In Part Two of this file Jennifer Weiner and I discuss:

How Creative People See the World Through Their Own Lenses

Why Hard Work Alone Forges Enduring Writers

Why Ebooks are Indispensable to Writers on the Go

Why Just You Need Sit Down and Start Writing

The Show Notes

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JenniferWeiner.com

So you want to be a novelist? Jennifer Weiner

The Littlest Bigfoot – Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner on Instagram

Jennifer Weiner on Facebook

Jennifer Weiner on Twitter

Kelton Reid on Twitter

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Release date

Lydbog: 17. oktober 2016