Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

Emily Franklin is a novelist from Massachusetts, and she joins us, and like you, I could not. That's when they got wheels off. Emily Franklin is a novelist from Massachusetts, and she joins me on this newest

wheels off to talk about her entire creative process, which has led to 25 books that she's

released over the years.

And her newest book, which takes us all the way back to 1816, and follows Claire Claremont

during the summer in which Mary Shelley famously wrote Frankenstein and a bunch of great

literary figures came together that summer and in this book as well

and sort of tell the behind-the-scenes story of the madness behind that time and those people.

But she's great.

I think you guys are really going to get a kick out of this interview because, you know, first of all, she's a great writer. I can vouch for that. But she's got a sort of different approach. So many of these wheels off interviews I'm talking to musicians who like to sleep late, who sort of, you know, chase the muse around

in a haphazard fashion, not Emily Franklin. She is, what was the, what was the word she used in this interview? She says, the ritualization, something like that.

She has a very ritualized process.

And I think it's great.

I think it's great to hear about all the different ways that people get to the place where they're able to make art.

And Emily's pretty fantastic. You guys are going to really appreciate this,

and I'm really grateful that she showed up to be a part of this Wheels Off conversation series.

So thank you once again for logging in and listening.

And thank you so much to Emily Franklin for joining.

Please, without any further ado, give a warm Wheels Off welcome to Emily Franklin.

Thank you for joining me.

Welcome to Wheels Off, Emily Franklin.

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