Jessica Knoll: Screenwriter and New York Times Best-Selling Author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jessica Knoll is the New York Times best-selling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister, and her work has been published in over 40 languages. Her books are so gripping, in fact, that they’ve both been adapted for film and television, respectively. With that career success also came a pivot, as Knoll has made a name for herself in the industry as a standout screenwriter and producer with even more projects under way. She’s adapting the Reddit short story “I Think My Mother-in-Law Is Trying to Kill Me” for Sony and sold her first original script, ‘Til Death, to Amazon. But back before Knoll was adapting stories for film and television and even before she was writing the books that would inspire them, she was an editor at Self and Cosmo magazines. Tune in to hear how her multifaceted career has unfolded in unexpected and fascinating ways.

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0:38.5	Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who
0:44.3	What Wear, and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly
0:50.3	inspiring careers. We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned
0:54.9	from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when
1:00.2	they embark on their Second Life. Today on the show, I'm speaking with New York
1:05.0	Times bestselling author and screenwriter Jessica Nol. In 2015, Jessica's debut
1:11.7	novel, Luckyis Girl Alive, became an overnight sensation, leading to
1:16.8	translations in 40 countries and sales of over a million copies. When her
1:22.9	sophomore novel, The Favorite Sister, debuted three years later, Jessica replicated
1:28.0	that groundswell with another gripping and suspenseful page-turner.
1:31.9	Interestingly enough, though, writing books wasn't always a part of Jessica's
1:36.9	immediate career plan. In fact, it was during her time as a magazine editor at
1:42.5	Cosmo, that a friend she'd worked with at her very first job at Paradigm Talent
1:47.6	Agency urged her to put pen to paper, or I guess fingers to keys, for a long
1:53.3	form project of her own. That decision not only led to a major career pivot in
1:59.0	Jessica's life as a novelist, she's writing her third book as we speak, but it
2:04.6	also eventually set her up to embark on yet another path as a screenwriter.
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