I recognize that I’m probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on ‘The Colbert Report,’ and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it – on his show and on Twitter. Edan Lepucki Read Quote
I still can’t believe that I went on ‘The Colbert Report’ myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle’s, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey – an authoress has to lean in, right? Edan Lepucki Read Quote
Before my book, ‘California,’ came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let’s put it this way – I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn’t want it to disappoint, but I didn’t expect it to be a best-seller, either. Edan Lepucki Read Quote
It’s funny: when I set out to create the world of ‘California,’ I didn’t give the type of apocalypse much thought… I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively. Edan Lepucki Read Quote
I’m a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started ‘California,’ my son wasn’t even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother – so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world. Edan Lepucki Read Quote
I’m always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once – in the space of a single paragraph, even. Edan Lepucki Read Quote
