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🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Elizabeth Wetmore is the debut author — at age 52 — of Valentine, which is a #ReadWithJenna Today Show pick. Elizabeth also came to my virtual book club, which was so much fun! She and her thrilling, emotional debut novel that explores a brutal crime in a small Texas town, are on a huge meteoric rise! I loved our conversation about how she blended her experiences with compelling characters to create an astonishing work of fiction, the complexities in mother-daughter relationships, and her advice to writers: you are not alone, and you are not on anyone else's timetable.
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1:25.2 | I loved it. |
1:26.1 | I had such a nice time talking to Elizabeth Wetmore, who's the author of Valentine, |
1:31.1 | which is the hashtag Read with Jenna Today Show Pick. |
1:35.0 | Elizabeth also came to my virtual book club, which was so much fun. |
1:38.8 | And if you want to join, just go to the link in my bio or my website at Zivie owens.com and sign up for the book club. |
1:46.1 | Anyway, Elizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. |
1:50.6 | She's the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two |
1:54.2 | fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. |
1:59.4 | She was a Rona Jaffe scholar in fiction at Breadloaf and a fellow at the McDowell Colony. |
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