Since I became a mother, I think I’ve lost that second shift for good.ĭuring the day, it’s catch-as-catch-can.

I’ve always preferred working in the mornings, but I used to also do a second shift in the evening. Since I had my daughter three months ago I’ve been getting up at 4:30 or 5 in the morning to squeeze in a few hours of work before she’s up for the day. WHEN DO YOU WORK? WHAT HAPPENS IN A TYPICAL DAY? The less distraction the better for me, but I can, and have, worked in some crazy places-airports, waiting rooms, NYC taxi cabs. I work at the kitchen table or a tiny desk in my bedroom that faces the wall. Now I can’t write a book under 100K words to save my life. Or it could be because I’m not a very good short story writer, so I went in entirely the opposite direction. My second series, The WorldWalker Trilogy. WHAT IS YOUR LATEST BOOK OR CURRENT PROJECT? Like a friend of mine once said, “Every overnight success story takes about seven years.” My start as a novelist was fast and splashy, but behind that was almost a decade of struggling. Starcrossed was bought pre-emptively by Harper Teen, and in 26 other countries, which came as quite a surprise. So, I took a chance and wrote my first manuscript-ambitiously deciding that it needed to be the first book in a trilogy. He said that regardless of what I had studied in school, I should do what I love. After a few years of weathering a sea of “no’s” in Hollywood, my husband (who is a screenwriter) mentioned that I seemed to read more books than screenplays. I started as a theater major in college, and then I moved to Los Angeles to be a screenwriter. Her next series, Trial by Fire, Book One of the WorldWalker Trilogy (Feiwel and Friends, Macmillan) is out now. Her debut series, Starcrossed, Dreamless, and Goddess (Harper Teen) are international bestsellers and have garnered the praise of various major publications, including the LA Times, and have twice won the Reader’s Choice Awards in Germany. Originally from Massachusetts, she now lives in Los Angeles with her screenwriter husband, her newborn daughter, and three Methuselah-old shelter cats. Teen fantasy fiction author Josephine Angelini is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in theater, with a focus on the classics.

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