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Thanks, Caroline!

About two weeks ago, Caroline Leavitt (whose new novel Pictures of You will release this November) – a huge fan of the Inside the Writers Studio videos – allowed RJ Keller and me some space on her blog to answer questions about our writing. Thank you, Caroline! Keller and I discuss NyQuil, literary drinking games, the problem with sex in novels, and more. Check it out here.

Leavitt, who is also a book reviewer for a couple of major publications, a screenwriter, and the author of  nine novels (to include Girls in Trouble, Coming Back to Me, Living Other Lives, and Into Thin Air), loved the Inside the Writers’ Studio videos so much she asked if she could be a guest.

Of course we said, “YES!”

Here is Caroline Leavitt as a guest ‘star’ in episode IV of “Inside the Writers’ Studio: Self-Promotion FAIL”

Caroline Leavitt loves Paper Rats!

So much, in fact, that she contacted us (“us” being RJ Keller and myself) for an interview, and it’s difficult for us to adequately express our gratitude. We hope “Thank you so so so so much!” communicates it.

From Ms. Leavitt’s bio (with the third-person pov tossed in by us):  Caroline Leavitt is the award winning author of eight novels, most recently Girls in Trouble, which was a Booksense Selection and is now in its third printing. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and portions of her novel in progress won a Goldenberg Fiction Prize. She was a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship, a semi-finalist in the Fade In/Writers’ Net Screenwriting Competition, and a National Magazine Award nominee.

The interview’s intro:

As anyone who follows me on Facebook and Twitter knows, I’ve fallen in love with Paper Rats videos. They’re hilarious, smart, very knowing videos about the writing experience, so of course I had to track down the people responsible and hurl questions at them. And who are these brilliant folk?

Yes! Who?

Read the rest at Caroline Leavitt’s blog.