#amwriting With Jess & Kj

Parkland author Dave Cullen on everything you ever wanted to know about pitching and writing a topical nonfiction book at top speed (and going broke doing it). We talked to Dave Cullen, about writing Parkland: Birth of a Movement, in ten months while he was 3 years overdue on his current book.  "I'm just not gonna tell Gail," he said of his editor when he took the first assignment from Vanity Fair--but there was something going on with the Parkland students that grabbed him, and he--with the help of his agent, Betsy Lerner--grabbed it.  "I just had to." He describes the process of writing the book, how the length, plan and due dates evolved--and how he almost went broke doing it.  #FaveIndieBookstore Dave's #FaveIndieBookstore is Books & Books in Miami Beach, FL. "It was the only store I specifically asked to visit on my tour." #AmReading A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin  Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Letham This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the boo