Episode 198 #RoomforTwoPrincesses

We&#8217;re interviewing <a href="https://www.julielythcotthaims.com/">Julie Lythcott-Haims</a> this week and you won&#8217;t want to miss it, because 1) she wrote an amazing, best-selling book called <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250093639">How to Raise an Adult</a> and then followed THAT up with a memoir, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250296733">Real American</a>, that the New York Times Book Review <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/real-american-julie-lythcott-haims-memoir.html">pretty much thought was amazing</a> and is now drafting the sequel to Adult very much on her own terms; and 2) she could very easily have become Jess&#8217;s arch-nemesis, and vice versa.<br/><br/>If they had been totally different people.<br/><br/>If they had been less open, less willing to see possibility in a scary-sounding situation.<br/><br/>If they&#8217;d let fear and jealousy win. But they didn&#8217;t. So two writers with authority, each releasing a book on raising children to be independent in nearly exactly the same moment turned out to be a recipe for collaboration, not catastrophe. The lesson? In books, it&#8217;s really almost never winner-takes-all.<br/><br/>We talk about how they pulled it off, how Julie transcended expectations with her memoir and why it&#8217;s so important to resist the call to write something that isn&#8217;t what you want to write.<br/><br/>Episode links and a transcript follow&#8212;but first, we&#8217;re giving away a set of three LitStarts, little books of writing prompts created by the Writer&#8217;s Grotto that Julie talks about during the podcast, to&#8212;a subscriber to this weekly shownotes email! Which means you&#8217;re very likely already entered to win. If you&#8217;re not, just click below, sign up to get our free weekly behind the scenes from the podcast and get your name in that hat. <br/><br/>(and if you know someone who would really LOVE to win those&#8212;please forward this email and help a fellow writer out.)<br/><br/>LINKS F