author annabel monaghan on getting unstuck, her new book ‘summer romance,’ and how decluttering reveals your true values

So Into That

Caro Chambers

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/author-annabel-monaghan-on-getting

It’s summertime, and that means it’s Annabel Monaghan time!

Annabel’s one of my favorite authors, and lucky for us she cranks out a delightful new book seemingly every June.

This year is no different, so today we talk about Summer Romance and a whole lot more: from kids and smartphones (she’s also mom of 3 boys/young men), to sneaking away from her family to write her first adult novel during the pandemic (“it felt like a love affair”) to her recent embrace of getting rid of old stuff – and the existential questions that pop up when you’re deciding whether to let go of a 15-year-old shirt.

Plus, Annabel’s fascinating writing process: part art, part science, part voodoo. And bribing her sons to read her (not even that steamy) books: “They’re like, ‘Gross!’”

Links:

* Annabel’s new book, Summer Romance - https://amzn.to/3R5GYc1

* Her debut (adult) novel, Nora Goes Off Script - https://amzn.to/3wVtadi

* Same Time Next Summer - https://amzn.to/3R0DHuo

* Annabel’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/annabelmonaghan/?hl=en

* Our new cabin! - https://www.instagram.com/p/C7hGmo_xKSM/?hl=en&img_index=1

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0:00.0	Annabelle, I am so beyond thrilled to be joined today by one of my favorite authors
0:05.6	Annabelle Monaghan, Annabelle's debut novel, Nora goes off script, published in
0:10.8	2022. The following summer she published same time next summer and she
0:16.9	published summer romance which I had the extreme delight of receiving an early copy of
0:22.3	I dropped everything the second that I saw it, that I opened the package and I read it immediately in like 14 hours and it is absolutely perfect. I've been screaming its praises but it's finally here.
0:37.9	She is also the mother of three boys which I obviously love because same and I have a lot to learn from you.
0:44.2	She did however go to Duke, to which all I have to say is bummer and go heels.
0:51.1	And of all, I am so pumped to have you here.
0:56.0	What a delight.
0:57.0	Your book publishes in six days from this recording.
1:02.4	So we're going to get into all of that, into your book tour, into how it's all feeling. But first of all, let's talk about what we're into right now. What are you into? I am really into letting stuff go. God that sounds good.
1:18.8	And I don't want to be like giving, introducing too big of a topic.
1:22.7	Yes.
1:23.8	So this book, when I finished writing this book,
1:26.8	she's, her life is a mess and she cleans up her life.
1:30.0	And as soon as I finished writing the book,
1:32.4	my husband and I decided to sell our house.
1:35.6	Oh. Yeah, the house that we've been living in for 17 years.
1:40.4	Oh. The house where I've literally never thrown one thing out in 17 years.
1:45.9	No, I've got it all.
1:47.4	Like, yeah.
1:48.4	Like little, I went into my 26 year old son's closet and found a size 8 polo shirt. I mean, and I went, I spent just
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