Episode 151: Three Second Novelists Share Their Struggles
Eating the Fantastic · Scott Edelman
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Show Notes
Three recent second novelists — Karen Osborne, Sarah Pinsker, and K. M. Szpara — discuss why "second books are weird," what (if anything) they learned writing their debuts which made book two easier, why pantsing is a thing of the past, whether book two had them concerned about creating a brand, how writing acknowledgements for second novels can be strange, the way deadlines made taking time off between books impossible, the dangers of being abandoned by debut culture, the fear of fewer pre-publication eyeballs on book two, how the pandemic will affect the creation of future novels, and much more.