Story Craft Cafe Episode 10 | Cassidy Lucas Talks About How Writing As A Team Opens New Creative Doors

<p>Our guests today in the Story Craft Cafe are Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger who write as the duo named Cassidy Lucas. We talk about how their creative process changes when they are writing alone as compared to the magic that happens whey they co-author. </p> <p>Cassidy Lucas is the pen name of writing duo Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger. Fierro is the author of the novels Cutting Teeth, praised by the New Yorker as a “comically energetic début,” and The Gypsy Moth Summer, called “hugely engaging” by Francine Prose. Widger is the author of the novels Real Happy Family and Mother of Invention, praised by Margaret Atwood as a “pacey thriller,” and was featured on NPR’s Marketplace. Both Fierro and Widger live in Santa Monica with their families. Their second novel, <a href='http://www.cassidylucas.com/books/'>The Last Party</a>, set in Topanga Canyon on the westside of Los Angeles, will be published in April 2022. <a href='http://www.cassidylucas.com/the-book/'>Santa Monica,</a> their first book together, was published in 2020.</p> <p>The authors of Santa Monica once again illuminate the dark truths of life in sunny California in <a href='http://www.cassidylucas.com/books/'>THE LAST PARTY</a>, a twisty and atmospheric psychological thriller about a 50th birthday celebration on a remote mountainside in Topanga Canyon, where things go terrifyingly wrong.</p> <p>For Los Angeleno Dawn Sanders, turning 50 seems like one more disappointment. Her career has stalled, her nineteen-year-old daughter with developmental issues is regressing, and Dawn’s ex-husband Craig, a fertility doctor worshipped by Hollywood’s elite, is forever upending her life. Though she doesn’t feel much like celebrating, she can’t say no when her best friend Mia Markle, a flamboyant and strong-willed actress, insists on planning a “creative” birthday weekend in the wild, wealthy bohemian enclave of Topanga Canyon.</p> <p>On the weekend of the Summer Solstice, Dawn and her six closest friends gather in the hills above the canyon at “Cel