I also am very, very excited about what I want to do with the audio version. I want to get it out as soon as possible because I'm excited about it. Speaking of June French, I’m working on the June French novel that the two characters in Thank You For Listening recorded, called Casanova LLC. Is there anything you’re working on now you can preview? That’s who I wanted the character to represent. They would say the things we all were thinking but didn’t have the courage to. I just had so much respect for them, and they were also aware of those stereotypes and were angry about them. They knew what their audience wanted, and they gave it to them. These women were businesswomen - reliable and smart. To me, it was always exactly the opposite. There’s the character from “Romancing the Stone” who sits there typing and crying in her feather boa. We have this weird, frankly sexist view of the romance writer in popular culture. To me, she was a pastiche of a lot of the romance novelists that I have worked for as a narrator. Her presence had to be keenly felt without having any screentime. From the beginning, I knew she was an important character but there wasn’t a place for her to exist in the book. Tell me about June French, the romance writer character in Thank You For Listening, who gives an interview dissecting criticisms of the genre as silly or frivolous. I had to scrape together every bit of concentration I could to get a draft of the book done. There was no way to avoid what was happening in the world. With the news stories, there was no unplugging for me. It was the only way my brain could focus enough at that period of time, when I was still recording other people’s books and news articles for Audm. Then I cut them up and dropped them in and looked at what I had. It almost felt like I was writing connected short stories. I wrote her relationship with her best friend Adaku straight through, her relationship with her grandmother straight through, all the epistolary sections, etc. I actually wrote all of this book’s storyline’s straight through.
I had an outline - the screenwriter part of me always like to have an outline. It was a moment when nothing was funny or romantic. I wrote a majority of it between the summer of 2020 and March 2021, which a very intense time to be writing a romcom. What was the process of writing Thank You For Listening Like? The Great Alone and The Invisible Life of Addie La Ru e mark turning points in my life, not just professionally but personally. It seems ridiculous in hindsight, but those were Taylor Jenkins Reid and Emily Henry.Īnd then, there are always books that mean something to me because they come into my life at the exact moment I needed them, just like a normal reader. There are also authors I latched onto early because I thought they weren’t getting the credit they deserved.
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