The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Andrew Child Writes


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#1 NY Times bestselling author, Andrew Child, spoke to me about his lifelong obsession with storytelling, working with Jack Reacher co-author and brother Lee Child, and their latest in the series THE SECRET.

In addition to four Reacher novels, Andrew Child – the pen name of author Andrew Grant – has also written his own hit thriller series including RUN, False Positive, False Friend, False Witness, Invisible, and Too Close to Home

His brother Lee Child is the creator of the international bestselling, award-winning, 28-book series of Jack Reacher novels, and winner of Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards.

NPR said of the books, “The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going,” and James Patterson said of the brother’s collaboration, “Two Childs are better than one.”

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In this file Andrew Child and I discussed:

  • His past lives in theater and the corporate world
  • The two saddest words in the English language
  • What it was like being a Beta reader for Lee’s early Reacher novels
  • The evolution of the Child brother’s low-tech writing process
  • How to outwrite self-doubt 
  • And a lot more!
  • Show Notes:

    • jackreacher.com
    • The Secret: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child [Amazon]
    • Andrew Grant Amazon Author Page
    • Jack Reacher on Facebook
    • Jack Reacher on Instagram
    • Jack Reacher on Twitter
    • Kelton Reid on Twitter
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