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🗓️ 1 March 2022
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This is a replay of an old episode with JoJo Moyes, recorded back in 2018 at the Penguin offices! A trip down memory lane! Jojo Moyes is a novelist, best known for her bestselling book Me Before You which has sold over 8 million copies worldwide, she has been a full time novelist since 2002, before that she was a journalist for 10 years. Me Before You has since gone on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide. The film adaptation of Me Before You starring Sam Claflin & Emilia Clarke was released in June 2016 and was a huge box-office success with the screenplay also written by Jojo. since this interview, she’s published the Giver Of Stars which has been a huge success, in this episode we spoke about dealing with rejected manuscripts, changing jobs, her new book Still Me, the power of listening to feedback and the excitement of being on a film set when you wrote the main characters. Hope you enjoy!
Me Before You: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780718157838
Still Me: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781405924207
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0:57.9 | Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a replay of an old episode with JoJo Moise, |
1:03.6 | recorded back in 2018 at the Pinguin offices. JoJo Moise is a novelist, best known for her best |
1:09.4 | selling book Me Before You, which is now sold over 8 million copies worldwide. She's been a full-time |
1:14.7 | novelist since 2002, and before that she was a journalist for 10 years. The film adaptation of Me |
1:20.8 | Before You starred Sam Claflin and Amida Clark, which was released in June 2016 and was a huge |
1:27.5 | box office success. She also wrote the screenplay for that film, and since its interview she's |
1:33.2 | gone on to publish The Giver of Stars, which is out now. In this episode we talk about dealing |
1:38.3 | with projection. We talk about how JoJo wasn't always selling millions of copies of her books, |
1:44.4 | how her career took off, how she changed jobs. Her new book Still Me, which had come out at the time |
1:50.3 | of this interview and the power of listening to feedback. I hope you enjoy listening to this replay. |
1:55.8 | It was fun to go down memory lane. Here is the episode. |
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