Never Too Old For This With Samantha Downing

Barely Famous

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Bestselling thriller author Samantha Downing joins Kail Lowry to talk plot twists, messy marriages, and creating characters you love to hate. Known for My Lovely Wife, He Started It, A Twisted Love Story, and her upcoming 2025 release Too Old for This, Downing reveals how she went from hobby writer to landing a Penguin Random House deal after 12 unpublished books. They discuss early-chapter bombshells, naming unforgettable characters, and the fine art of misdirection to keep even the savviest readers guessing.

If you love twist-heavy thrillers that pull you out of a reading slump, this episode is a must-listen.

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0:00.0	Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original
0:05.2	from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth
0:10.2	Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale,
0:15.5	set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie,
0:22.1	a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing
0:26.5	together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the
0:31.7	impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong
0:38.2	and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in,
0:41.3	Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated
0:44.0	than she ever planned.
0:45.8	She's in over her head and head over heels.
0:48.5	Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible.
0:51.2	Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer.
0:55.3	Welcome to the shit show.
0:56.7	Things are going to get weird.
0:58.3	It's your fay villain, Kail Lowry.
1:00.1	And you're listening to Barely Famous.
1:06.1	Welcome back to Barely Famous. Today's guest is a best-selling thriller author, Samantha Downing.
1:15.6	She's known for my lovely wife. He started it and a twisted story. Her newest book, Too Old for this, comes out August 2025.
1:22.6	Her books turn picture-perfect relationships into draw-dropping suspense. And we're talking plot twists, writing behind the scenes, and what really goes into creating characters you love to hate. Too old for this, it'll keep you on your toes and get you out of a reading slump. So if you are looking for a book like that, I highly suggest it. Samantha Downing, thank you so much for joining us on Barely Famous Podcast. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. I'm excited to have you and excited to be reading your book. I'm reading too old for this right now. And I love, love, love that you went into it and dove head first. Like, favorite thing about a book. It'll get you out of a reading slump. It's good for anyone who just wants a quick read. I love it so much.
2:01.5	Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Yes. So your debut novel, My Lovely Wife,
2:06.9	came out in 2019. Is that right? What was the inspiration for that book? That book actually came
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