Welcome to the shit show. Things are going to get weird. It's your fave villain,

Kail Lowry. And you're listening to Barely Famous.

Today's guest is Lucy's score.

She's one of the biggest names in indie romance.

Her books are full of small towns, big emotions,

Swoonie Slow Burns, and characters you wish were real.

She's built an empire from the ground up, gone viral on book talk,

and somehow keeps things fun, grounded, and relatable. All right, Lucy, thank you for joining me on Barely Famous Podcast. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. You said this is your first in-person podcast, which I'm so happy to be the first one. Hopefully I set the bar high for all the other podcasts. I think it'll all be downhill from here. But first and foremost, Lucy, is a pen name.

Is that right? What made you decide to go under a pen name? Well, when I started writing romance, I was working full time for an accounting firm in marketing. And I just had this feeling. I was like,

I don't think they're going to like me doing this on the side.

And so I was like, you know, I'm going to have a cool pen name.

Something short that's easy to sign.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I worked really hard to come up with the exact, perfect name.

And I went with Lucy because my grandfather used to pretend that he couldn't remember my name and he'd always call me Lucy.

That's so cute.

What a cute story, though.

I, yep, so that was my nod to him.

And score came from the same night I picked Lucy, we went to a ceremony for one of Mr. Lucy's nephews and we're in this auditorium and

there's like this big marble surround over the stage and the first couple of lines of the

Gettysburg Address were carved into it.

So it's four score.

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