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