71. Writing a forty-year love story with author Jennifer Gold

This is episode 71 of the Stories to Love Podcast. Here with me today is Nicole J. Persun, writing as Jennifer Gold.

Nicole J. Persun is an award-winning author who has written and published in multiple genres, most notably book club fiction under the pen name Jennifer Gold. 

The Ingredients of Us was a 2020 Book Excellence Award Winner and a two-time finalist for the 2020 International Book Award. Keep Me Afloat received five award recognitions, including a Chanticleer International Book Award Somerset First Place honor. Her latest novel, Halfway to You, was an Amazon First Reads selection for March. 

Nicole loves open water swimming and fills her spare time with books, travel, and coffee. Learn more at nicolejpersun.com. Discover her recent novels at jennifergoldauthor.com.

In this episode we talk about her most recent release, HALFWAY TO YOU, which is a forty-year love story, her dry spell and a trip to Tahiti that spurned this book, how she prepared the first draft of this book, her amazing first line in HALFWAY TO YOU, flaws in characters, and what makes them redeemable.

Links
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The View was Exhausting Michaela Clemens and Julie Dada
The Beautiful Ones from Silvia Garcia

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