WriterFest with Ami McConnell

JT Ellison: NYT Best Selling Author

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J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 25 novels, and the EMMY® award winning co-host of the literary TV show A WORD ON WORDS. With millions of books in print, her work has won critical acclaim, prestigious awards, been optioned for television, and has been published in 28 countries. Ellison lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens. Visit JT at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more insight into her wicked imagination.

In this episode, Ami and JT talk about:

  • Her Dark Lies
  • Independant publishing v/s traditional publishing
  • Tomb of the Queen by (pen name)Josh Walker (really JT and Alesha Klapheke)
  • Meeting up at Digital Book World
  • The curse of the internal editor
  • The Good Cup
  • The legacy of the late great John Sigenthaler
  • Emmy-award winning A Word on Words @ Wordonwords.org  Also airing on NPT Sundays at 10:40 and Thursdays at 7:50
  • Nashville Public Television
  • Southern Festival of Books
  • Nashville literary scene
  • Sisters in Crime
  • John Connelly
  • Anne Patchett
  • Karen Hayes
  • Parnassus
  • Nashville Public Libraries and J.T.’s favorite local library
  • Emily Henry “People We Meet on Vacation”
  • Georgina Cross “Nanny Needed”
  • Lisa Unger “Last Girl Ghosted”
  • Z “The Other Black Girl” Zakiya Dalila Harris
  • David Bell “Kill Your Darlings”
  • Haruki Murakami “What I Talk about When I Talk about Running”
  • The Freedom app
  • Robert Kolker “Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family”
  • Margaret Renkl
  • Mary Laura Philpott
  • Jon Meachum
  • Erik Larsen The Splendid and the Vile
  • Marie Benedict “The Personal Librarian”
  • The Gothic trend
  • Cal Newport “Deep Work” and “A World without Email”
  • JT’s advice for writers
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