Big Boo Five Questions with Lisa Jackson

The Big Boo Cast

Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson

Christianity, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on the fifth installment of Five Questions - a six-week bonus series of The Big Boo Cast - we're talking with Lisa Jackson, who just so happens to be our literary agent. Lisa works in Colorado Springs with Alive Literary Agency, and I know Melanie would agree that, in so many ways, she is the wind beneath our writing wings. You might even convince us to sing a duet about how much we love her. On today's episode, we talk about how publishing has changed, what agents and publishers are looking for in a book, and Lisa's favorite parts of being a literary agent.

We'll be back later this week with our regular episode - Episode 230 - and then next Monday we’ll have another episode of Five Questions with one of our very first friends from Ye Olden Days of Blogging - and one of our favorite writers - the delightful Annie Downs.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Show Notes:

- Lisa Jackson

- A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet

- Nobody's Cuter Than You

- Little House on the Prairie series

- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

- Barbara Brown Taylor

- Wendell Berry

- Alive Literary Agency

- Lisa on Instagram

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Sophie and welcome to Five Questions, which is a special bonus
0:23.0	series of the Big Bootcast.
0:25.2	This is actually the fifth installment of this series, and Melanie and I have had the
0:29.7	best time talking to different friends who are connected in some way to the writing
0:34.1	side of our lives.
0:36.3	Today is no exception because we are talking with our literary agent, Lisa Jackson.
0:43.1	Lisa is actually the person who signed both of us to our first book.
0:47.2	She was in acquisitions editor at Tendill House, and for the last several years she has been
0:51.9	our literary agent, which means she is the person who really keeps us sane during the
0:58.6	process of proposing and writing books.
1:02.5	We love her so much and we're so excited for you to hear her today as we talk about all
1:07.8	kinds of things related to the writing life.
1:11.2	So we hope you enjoy this fifth episode of Five Questions.
1:42.2	Hey everybody, this is Sophie, this is Big Mama.
1:45.1	Hey, it's Melanie, it's Big Mama.
1:47.2	And it's Lisa.
1:48.2	Hey, Lisa.
1:49.2	Hi, Lisa.
1:50.2	Hey, we're so happy to talk to you in this context because we've both been talking to you
1:56.7	in different contexts for how long Melanie?
1:59.8	How many years?
2:00.8	Oh gosh, 10 years.
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