For quite a long time, I've wondered if we could pull off a live episode.

So when Elizabeth Duvivier's debut novel was due to come out and my friend Susannah Conway floated the idea of my coming over to London to moderate Elizabeth's book launch, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to realize this dream.

I have to say, it worked out even better than I could have imagined. Elizabeth's book is gorgeous, the audience that arrived at the Poetry Cafe could not have been more perfect, and the audio came out crystal clear. In this conversation, we talk about the process of writing a novel when you had planned on writing something else entirely, that moment when you've got a giant unwieldy manuscript on your hands and have to pull it all together, and Elizabeth's inspiring decision to self publish in order to control every creative decision that went into the design and production of her book.

In addition, we had some brilliant questions from our magical studio audience, so you get to hear from all of them and the thoughtful responses Elizabeth gave to everyone there. I love that there is a whole community of voices on this episode, and I hope you enjoy hearing them as well.

This episode wraps up the very very long season one of the show. We'll be back in 2020 with Season Two!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.book-alchemy.com/subscribe