She Wrote Her First Novel in a School Pickup Line | Christine Gunderson

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Before she was an Amazon bestselling author, Christine Gunderson was a television reporter, a Capitol Hill press secretary, and a stay-at-home mom writing her first novel one sentence at a time in a school carpool line. In this episode, host Samantha Tennant sits down with Christine to talk about her winding ten-year road to publication, the real conversations with women who worked in Washington in 1965 that shaped her new novel Behind White Picket Fences, and why the pressure on mothers to do it all hasn’t gone away, it has just changed shape. Christine also opens up about balancing a dual timeline and a mystery element without losing the heart of the story, the gift of female friendships that let us drop the performance, and what she is working on next. Then stick around for the Fresh Fiction Facts lightning round, covering everything from her emotional-security mug of black tea to the one adaptation of Pride and Prejudice she will actually watch. Never miss a Fresh Fiction author interview, new release spotlight, or reader giveaway. Sign up for our free newsletter at freshfiction.com/newsletters.php

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