MTTA 159: Eva Lesko Natiello

Eva Lesko Natiello is the award-winning author of NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestseller, THE MEMORY BOX, a HOUSTON WRITERS GUILD MANUSCRIPT AWARD WINNER.

She is a graduate of SUNY Albany with a degree in psychology. Eva is a native of Yonkers, NY and currently lives in suburban New Jersey with her family.

THE MEMORY BOX, a debut novel, is a worldwide bestseller and has been a #1 bestselling book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes and Kobo. 

Her latest book FOLLOWING YOU was published on Feburary 2, 2021.

I enjoyed chatting with Eva on her creative process and the unique ways she gets ideas for supspensful psychological thrillers and a lot more.

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Show Notes & Links

Vice Article we talked about (very meta): https://www.vice.com/en/article/3b4kbw/chilling-coincidence-google-alert.

Estée Lauder wiki bio.

Transcript

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[00:01:23.320]So happy to have Eva here on the podcast. Welcome.

[00:01:26.140]Thank you. Thanks, Alan.

[00:01:28.180]Did I butcher your name? I always forget to ask before hitting the record, but wow, it was so beautiful. I have to say, you did not get tripped up by Natty Yellow. And I have to tell you, I have heard it many, many different ways.

[00:01:43.690]Oh, good, good. Yeah, yeah. With the double L in Spanish. I want to go to that. Yeah.

[00:01:49.390]Yeah. But you still used a really nice I don’t know what kind of lyrical the way you said it, but thank you.

[00:01:54.790]OK, thank you. I’m glad I didn’t it. So can you tell us a little bit about your background please.

[00:02:00.370]Yeah, sure. I started writing thrillers I’d say about ten or so years ago, and and it wasn’t something that I always like. I wasn’t born and said to myself as a infant, I need to be a novelist someday. I’m not one of those authors. I really never planned on writing. It kind of happened. So a little bit out of the blue, I have to say. It’s kind of an interesting story. I was in my past life, so right before I started writing, I was in the cosmetics industry and I was a PR and marketing director for Es...