321: Lisa Montanaro - Author of Everything We Thought Was True
Our guest this week is Lisa Montanaro (Everything We Thought Was True, Red Adept, January 2025). We discuss how Lisa taps into her background as an actress to "method act" her novels as she writes, including acting out scenes and writing scenes out of order based on her personal headspace that day. In the publication arena, she points out pluses and minuses to going traditional but with a smaller press and the differences between writing and marketing non-fiction and fiction. Finally we examine the challenges of distribution to bookstores and why book clubs are the best.
Lisa Montanaro is…
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