Ep. 225: Should I Become A Thriller Writer? (w/ J.T. Ellison)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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INTERVIEW: Thriller writer J.T. Ellison [25:23]

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuestGit, episode 225.
0:21.8	I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse, as you know, I've been excited
0:29.4	about this episode. It's featuring an interview that I've been wanting to do for a long time,
0:37.9	which is an interview with a full-time working New York Times best-selling thriller writer.
0:45.5	Yeah, you've been talking about this. I don't know why I've had to stuck in my head for
0:49.1	a while, but I have. So the interview I'm just going to come up later in the show is with
0:53.8	my friend J.T. Ellison. You can find out about at JTellison.com. She's a New York Times best-selling
1:01.8	author of more than 25 novels that collectively have millions of copies in print. So she writes
1:09.4	standalone thrillers. I have some of the names here, including it's one of us and her dark lies.
1:15.1	I think she got started with her Lieutenant Taylor Jackson series, a detective thriller series,
1:19.9	which began with all the pretty girls. She also writes the Dr. Samantha Owen series, and is a
1:26.4	Amy Award-winning host of an author TV show based out of Nashville called A Word on Words.
1:33.0	I've actually appeared on that show the last year and enjoyed that as well. Anyways,
1:38.7	here's the reason why I wanted to have a thriller writer on the show. I am very interested in this
1:43.3	world. I talked to J.T. about, first of all, her path from leaving a job here in D.C.
1:52.2	as a political marketer or something like this, or maybe an aerospace defense marketer. I don't
1:58.3	know. A beltway inside the beltway style job left, moves the Tennessee, became a thriller writer.
2:05.6	I wanted to know about that. I pushed her on why exactly did you succeed? So what was it specifically?
2:11.2	We get into the details that you did that the 10 other people trying to become thriller writers at
2:17.0	that same time didn't do that meant you succeeded and they didn't. So we really get into the details
2:21.3	of what actually makes the difference in finding traction in a career or just being someone who
2:26.4	occasionally does national novel writing month and then gives up. We get into the economics of
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