Author Lori Gold talks with Kelley Vick about her new novel, Romantic Friction, the real-world publishing experiences that inspired the novel, AI’s changing role in the creative writing space, how big books become big books (and what authors with smaller marketing budgets can do to get their work out there), why writers need to be a little bit arrogant, and much more.

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