From Case Files to Fiction with Ashley Flowers

Barely Famous

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Talk Radio, Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week Kail sits down with Ashley Flowers to talk about her new thriller The Missing Half, chaotic plot twists, and why her Notes app might require its own intervention. From writing books while going into labor to building an 80-person podcast empire, Ashley shares how she went from spider DNA to the New York Times bestseller list. This is for all our crime junkies!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show.
0:02.9	Things are going to get weird.
0:04.0	Get weird.
0:04.5	It's your fave villain, Kail Lowry.
0:06.4	And you're listening to Barely Famous.
0:12.1	Welcome back to another episode of Barely Famous podcast.
0:19.0	Today we have Ashley Flowers.
0:20.6	Welcome to Barely Famous. Thank you we have Ashley Flowers. Welcome to Barely
0:21.4	Famous. Thank you. And congratulations. Publish Day for the missing half. So exciting. I know. Okay.
0:27.1	You said it took you for, or you wrote it a long time ago. Yeah. Okay. So tell me about it. Let's talk
0:31.8	about it. Yeah. Well, the book's been done for like a year and a half. Oh, so what was that waiting for? Man, publishing. I like,
0:39.2	it was like, you have to find all the right times, right? So like the publishers need like a certain
0:42.4	amount of time to like get it in bookstores, sell it. Then it was like by the time it was ready,
0:46.1	it was going to be the election. It was like not ideal. Yeah. And then they're like, okay,
0:49.9	we could wait until January, but then like, who knows what was going to happen this January. Yeah. And so it just kept pushing and pushing and pushing.
0:56.2	So we landed on May 6th, somehow it felt like it was never going to come, but here we are.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:00.5	No, it's perfect timing, I feel, because we're just coming off of spring break but going into the summer, so people will have more time to read.
1:05.5	Beatrice.
1:06.1	Yeah.
1:06.3	That's what I or one twist. And then like my writing process is kind of built around that one thing.
1:27.7	Okay.
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