Wendy Walker

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Wendy Walker: Greyhound (1 1/2 ounces vodka, 2 1/2 ounce grapefruit juice) Wendy shares the meticulous approach she took to becoming a bestselling author that began with learning what kind of fiction works for the market, describes what she likes about James Patterson's "winning structural formula", describes her early careers as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and then as a corporate attorney, tells how motherhood brought her out of the workforce then returned her to a career as a novelist, lists the greatest plot twist ever, and reveals the strangest question she's ever gotten at a book event.

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside
0:06.0	the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations
0:10.7	with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can
0:16.5	see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:22.1	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:41.3	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Wendy Walker. Wendy is the
0:46.0	best-selling author of Psychological Suspense novels, including her breakout 2016 novel, All Is Not
0:52.0	Forgotten. And I discovered Wendy's work through the best way,
0:56.2	through a good friend, Sarah Clementi, who came over and was raving about this book she was
1:01.0	listening to on Audible. And from there, I ran out and got All Is Not Forgotten. And that has led to
1:07.0	this conversation here today with Wendy. Welcome. Thank you so much. That's a great story. I love it.
1:11.9	It's like, that's how it ought to be. Word of mouth. A great book gets around slowly but surely.
1:15.9	Exactly how it should be. Yeah. Yeah.
1:18.2	And you have, uh, ordered up some greyhounds for us today. So I'll get going on that.
1:25.6	We are doing a rare, uh, a rare studio show outside of the Sirius XM studio.
1:32.2	So a slightly different background today as I, as I fix these up.
1:37.6	That's great.
1:38.9	You got a heavy pour there.
1:40.6	Yeah, well, it's been a long day.
1:43.0	Yes.
1:44.7	I think everybody needs a cocktail after Thanksgiving weekend with the family.
1:48.7	There are always stories to tell.
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