Bestselling Supernova Jenna Blum on Her New Send-up of the Book World: 'Murder Your Darlings'!

Jenna talks about switching genres, turning the book industry inside-out, writing funny sex, and exercising her true voice

“I gave myself permission to use my own voice, which includes–I hope!--being funny. There’s nothing I love more in the world than making people laugh.”

Hello Loreates!

This week, I was delighted to have the chance to ask bestselling supernova Jenna Blum a few questions about her latest novel, Murder Your Darlings. This tongue-in-cheek thriller came out in January from HarperCollins, and it marks a genre change for Jenna, since most of her previous fiction was historical. So I had lots of questions. And she was most generous — and, of course, funny —in her answers about the book, her writing process, frustrations, and epiphanies during the creation of this novel.

Jenna is the New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; memoir Woodrow on the Bench; audiocourse “The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction” and WWII podcast The Key of Love. Murder Your Darlings is Jenna’s fifth book and first psychological thriller.

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