Isolationcast #10: How to write 20 bestsellers in 20 years with Adele Parks

I confess, I’m slightly obsessed with this week’s guest - not least because she is probably the first person I’ve interviewed who can claim to have written 20 bestsellers in 20 years. Yes, it is Adele Parks, author of, among others, Lies Lies Lies, Playing Away - and now Just My Luck, a gripping and hugely compelling look at the tensions that follow one couple’s lottery win. As you can imagine, you don’t have a career as successful as Adele’s by coincidence - she is a ferociously hard worker and extremely strategic in her approach. I loved hearing about this, and found her honesty and frankness about the industry and its marketing practices really insightful. She was also so open about how growing up without a financial safety net meant that she couldn’t afford to indulge in creative failures. And she had some great stuff to say about the often quite superficial but hugely influential role of genre in fiction. Of course, thanks to the coronavirus, the release of Just My Luck has been unlike any of her previous releases - so it was fascinating to hear her thoughts on how this could change the industry forever. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Buy the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B081D4N6T3/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Edited by Chelsey Moore