Hey there you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I am Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help

you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Today's

episode 375. Behind the scenes of the book I swore I would never write.

My third book, The Plan, Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius. It releases in 78 days a completely arbitrary number, but on this very random

summer Monday it sounds fun to talk about some of the behind-the-scenes details

about the book. After I wrote my second book, The Lacy Genius Kitchen, I said

I would never write a book again. And I'll tell you why I said that. But then I did write

another book. Again, it comes out in 78 days. Why did I write that book after all?

I'll share that too.

And because I personally love behind the scenes info,

especially in the areas of writing and publishing,

I want to share some of the details of the plan in case you love that stuff too so let's just jump in

All right so first I swear I would never write another book. Why did I say that? I always hesitate sharing this but I never wanted to be an author. I went to school to be an English teacher.

I love books and reading and talking about them. Clearly, if you get my newsletter you know that.

And I was a naturally good writer with some

excellent teachers that made my writing better. But I've never been a person who

thought I should write a book one day even when I started writing on the internet and

people around me were writing books I mean I thought it was the coolest thing but I

never imagined it would be for me I just didn't think I had anything to say that would fill an entire book. Plus it seemed really hard.

But eventually I got to a point in my work where I thought, you know, maybe a book makes sense here.

After years of talking about how to be a lazy genius and podcast episodes and an e-mails, I thought

it might be nice to have one resource that people could go to to learn how to be a lazy genius.

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