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Once upon a time four aspiring authors met at a writers’ conference. Ten years later they’re still friends, veterans of the dog-eat-dog New York publishing world. This is the premise of Wendy Wax’s new book, The Accidental Bestseller, just released from Berkley Books.
We interviewed Wendy to find out more about her new book and her life as a published author.
Thank you for this interview, Wendy. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?
I was a journalism/broadcast major in college and after graduating I worked in radio, television and film both in front of and behind the camera. I worked for the Tampa PBS affiliate, on a number of feature films, and as a voiceover and on-camera talent for commercial and corporate projects. The most memorable of these was my stint as the host of a live radio call in show on WDAE Radio called Desperate & Dateless.
In 1994 while at home with a newborn and a two-year-old, I was looking for a creative outlet and decided to try my hand at writing fiction. Looking back, I wonder that being a full time mother, which is the hardest job I’ve ever had, and the fact that I knew nothing about writing fiction, didn’t deter me. It did, however, slow me down.
It took me three years to complete that first novel, find an agent, and sell it. (This seemed like an eternity at the time; it was only after being in publishing for a while that I discovered how slowly things can move!) Love Talk, which drew on my experiences as host of Desperate & Dateless, came out in 1997. Each book after that also took years. It wasn’t until my youngest started school full time, that I became more productive.
In the intervening years, I’ve been published by Kensington, Bantam and now, Berkley. The Accidental Bestseller is my seventh novel.
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