#227 Dawn O'Porter: Is Anyone's Life As Perfect As It Looks?
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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It's been a Dawn O'Porter themed week! I hosted Q&A event with Dawn at Foyles which was so fun, we then recorded the podcast, and then her launch party!
Dawn is the author of 6 books including the award-winning YA books Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, her first adult novel The Cows was a Sunday Times Bestseller and her latest book "SO LUCKY" is totally fantastic. The novel is about three women and how life really isn't as perfect as it looks. Ruby is feeling like she's failing as a mother and woman, Beth is in a sexless marriage and online influencer Lauren is not telling the truth on Instagram.
We talk about writing fiction, finding inspiration and the power of saying no and quitting something that is making you miserable. If you enjoyed this chat please do rate/review!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind |
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| 0:56.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. |
| 1:06.3 | Today's guest is the brilliantly hilarious Dawn O Porter. |
| 1:10.6 | She's come on the podcast a few times now. I think she was one of the very first guests that I managed to convince to come on the podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | And then last year, or maybe the year before, I went around to her house in LA while I was there to talk about the cows which was her last book and now we're here in London I had a very dawn themed week we did an event at Foyles so thank you to everyone who came along for that. It was super fun. |
| 1:35.8 | And then we did the podcast and then it was her launch party as well. |
| 1:38.8 | Dawn knows how to throw a party. There was lots of cocktails and lots of dancing. |
| 1:42.6 | Dorno Porter, if you don't already know, is the author of six books, |
| 1:46.3 | including the award-winning YA books, Paper Airplanes and Goose, |
| 1:50.2 | and her first adult novel The Cows |
| 1:52.2 | was a Sunday Times bestseller and just a brilliant read that I could not put down. |
| 1:57.0 | And her latest book, also published by Harper Collins, is called So Lucky and it's fantastic. It is storming the Amazon charts as I speak and it's a novel about three women |
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