The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink.

Here’s what we talked about in this episode:

* Art isn’t something made by one person. Art, including books, is a collaborative medium, and depends on the reader almost as much as the author.

* We attack our frequent whipping boy: literary vs genre writing

* Inserting pop culture and personal references to our hearts’ content

* Here’s a theory: Writers should be amused by their own work. Makes it better for readers, right?

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