The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink.
Here’s what we talked about in this episode:
Bill showed-and-told (there’s no good verb for “show and tell”) some of his old books from his collection, and talked about the special place they have in his life and home.
Spinning off of this, I shared a strange revelation: Now that I’m selling my books in person, I feel like “a real author” in ways I never have before. After a dozen years in this business, only now — with physical books in hand and real readers in front of me — do I truly feel like I belong here.
We talked about “writing and seeing where it goes” versus plotting (Bill’s current dilemma).
And finally we talked about writing things you aren’t an expert in and how to avoid looking like an asshole by getting things wrong … which led me to one of my favorite writerly topics: Getting some obvious facts right as a way of buying yourself the leeway you need to flat-out invent fantastical things to follow.
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