Emiko Jean, MIKA IN REAL LIFE: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Alisha Fernandez Miranda is joined by New York Times bestselling author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Emiko Jean to discuss Mika in Real Life, a hilarious and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, intergenerational trauma, and second chances. Mika discusses tackling adult fiction for the first time and the evolution of her writing process (from pantser to plotter!). She also talks about how cathartic and empowering it is to put parts of herself in her Japanese-American characters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
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| 1:03.5 | Amico Jean is the author of Mika in Real Life, a novel, and this is one of our guest-hosted episodes by Alicia Fernandez Miranda, whose own book, My What If Year, is coming out from Zibi |
| 1:08.7 | books in February. When Amico is not writing, she is reading. |
| 1:12.5 | Most of her friends are imaginary. Before she became a writer, she was an entomologist, fancy name for |
| 1:17.9 | bug catcher, a candle maker, a florist, and most recently a teacher. She lives in Washington |
| 1:22.6 | with her husband and children, Unruly Twins, and she loves the rain. All right. Hi, everybody, and welcome back to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. I am here with Emiko Jean, the author of Mika in Real Life. But actually, I just want to talk to you about your Twilight fan fiction. That's what we're here, really, to talk about today. Yeah. You're not the first, you're not the first to bring it up and it still |
| 1:45.5 | exists on the internet. Okay, so I did, I did a cursory Google and I did not find it. |
| 1:52.2 | So, yeah, it's buried under an anonymous name and it will say anonymous. But yeah, I think that's, |
| 1:59.6 | you know, it's not unheard of for a lot of writers to start, like, you know, in fan fiction or kind of replicating the stories that they, you know, were really drawn to it. |
| 2:09.4 | I think I read in like a, in Stephen King's book that he even started when he was very young, kind of taking the comics or the books that he was reading and making up stories |
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