Janet Evanovich

1.  Did you choose the writing profession or did it choose you?

I chose it.

2.  What is your background? (education, work, etc.)  

BA degree from Douglass College

3.  When did you ‘know’ you were a writer?  

When I started writing.

4.  How would you describe your style of writing?

Adventure stories

5.  What is your writing process?  

I write all the time.

6.  What was your path to publication?  

Unpublished for ten years.  I refused to give up.

7.  What is your favorite self-marketing idea?  

Dynamite web site.

8.  What are the biggest surprises you’ve encountered as a writer?

How hard it is to sell a book.

9.  How do you inspire yourself? What are your sources of creativity?  

I eat junk food and listen to disco.

10.  What is your proudest writer moment?  

It was the day I sold my first book.

11.  What’s the best advice you were given about writing?  

Never hold anything back.

12.  What is your most embarrassing writer moment?  

There are so many...

13.  What business challenges have you faced as a writer?

There are so many...

14.  What is your writer life philosophy?  

Be resilient.

15.  When you’re not writing what do you do for fun?

Shop, eat pizza, drink some beer, watch NASCAR.

16.  Who do you like to read?  

Uncle Scrooge comics.

17.  What’s your advice for new writers?  

Never give up.  Respect your reader.

18.  What are you currently working on?  

A Plum novella.

Janet’s 18Q

The Eighteen Questions

18Q

www.evanovich.com

PLUM SERIES
One For the Money
Two For the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
The Last Peep (short story in the Mary Higgins Clark anthology The Plot Thickens)
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
Visions of Sugar Plums (holiday novella)
To the Nines

Ten Big Ones

Eleven On Top

Twelve Sharp

METRO SERIES
Metro Girl

Motor Mouth

FULL SERIES
Full House (non-Plum, romance, re-release and expanded with a co-author)
Full Tilt (non-Plum, romance, co-authored)
Full Speed (non-Plum, romance, co-authored)

Full Blast (non-Plum, romance, co-authored)

Full Bloom (non-Plum, romance, co-authored)

Full Scoop (non-Plum, romance, co-authored)

 

PRE-PLUM ROMANCE NOVELS-- currently being re-released:
Hero at Large, #409 written under Steffie Hall, Second Chance at Love
Full House, #456 written under Steffie Hall, Second Chance at Love
Foul Play, #466 written under Steffie Hall, Second Chance at Love

The Grand Finale, #254, Loveswept

Thanksgiving, #289, Loveswept

Manhunt, #303, Loveswept

Ivan Takes a Wife, #343, Loveswept

Back to the Bedroom, #362, Loveswept

Smitten, #392, Loveswept

Wife for Hire, #422, Loveswept

Rocky Road to Romance, #460, Loveswept

Naughty Neighbor, #537, Loveswept

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