In this week’s Corks & Conversation with Lisa Renee Jones, we had all the fun and inspiration we could hope for! Have a listen …
Lisa Renee Jones is a bestselling author who has written more than 100 books! Amazing, right? We wanted to know how she does it. It comes down to her strong work ethic formed by owning her own business.
“You’re writing to deadlines, so it’s a job. You have to look at it like that. And if you think ‘it’s so great you get to write books for a living,’ and it is, don’t get me wrong, but it is a job. If you are sick, if you have something personal going on, you still have to write the book.”
Lisa writes both romance and thrillers. In her latest standalone thriller, The Poet, profiler Samantha Jazz goes after a serial killer who leaves poems with his victims. This novel follows Samantha through a harrowing cat and mouse game with the killer. A great read! Get a copy of the book (indie bookshop.org or Amazon.com) and enjoy this page-turner with a glass of Meiomi Pinot Noir, like we did.
We shared lots of laughs about life and even our early music crushes. Along the way Lisa gave us some good advice on how to be a success as an author.
“Write the book, and then also remember that one book does not make a career. You don’t have to write a hundred books to be successful, but one book is not a career. I see these authors that will get obsessed about this one book- “this is the book of my life”- but no one book is the book of your life. Does Dan Brown have one book? They want authors who can produce and can continue to make money”
Because at the end of the day, if we want to have a career in writing, we have to put on a business hat some of the time. As Lisa says,
“The other thing that people don’t understand is: it’s a business, it’s about making money. So you have to make money, because if you don’t, the publishers won’t make money”
Some highlights from the Episode:
:57 We’re finally together!
6:38 All of her works, including romance, have thriller aspects!
7:06 Her relationship with Storage Wars
9:19 The inspiration behind the detectives in her thrillers
16:00 Rick Springfield or Andy Gibb??
26:54 Lisa’s advice to other writers
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