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In this conversation series, USA Today bestselling novelist Carter Wilson talks to writers of all backgrounds in order to find out why they do what they do. He and his guests discuss childhood influences, roots of creativity, luck and loss, tools of the craft, and the highs and lows of publishing. At the end of their conversation, they pick a random sentence from a random book and use it to create an impromptu short story. Visit Carter at www.carterwilson.com.

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Making It Up with Lexie Elliott, author of Bright and Deadly Things

February 16, 2023 • Carter Wilson • Season 1 • Episode 75

Lexie Elliott has been writing for as long as she can remember, but she began to focus on it more seriously after she lost her banking job in 2009 due to the Global Financial Crisis. After some success in short story competitions, she began planning a novel. The result was The French Girl, which was published by Berkley in February 2018. This was followed by The Missing Years in 2019 and How To Kill Your Best Friend in 2021. She is now working on her fourth novel.

Among other things, Carter and Lexie discuss Lexie’s path towards writing novels, how they both know they would write even if no one read their work, and what it is that draws them to writing thrillers. At the end of their conversation, they set up a thriller of their own starting from a sentence out of Donna Tartt’s novel, The Little Friend.

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Connect with Lexie at www.lexieelliott.com