LOTF 18: Julia Fine On Writing Her Debut, Feminine Desire, and Finding an Agent

In this episode we’re chatting with author Julia Fine. We talked about her new novel in episode 16 and we are so excited to have her on the show. A little about Julia: Her debut What Should Be Wild is out now from Harper Books. She earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, and has taught writing at Columbia College and DePaul University. She's currently living in Chicago with her family, hard at work on both her second novel and her one year-old son.

• Julia's process of writing What Should Be Wild's from initial idea to publications

• Advice on finding an agent

  • Julia's agent: Stephanie Delman with Greenburger Associates

  • Query Tracker

• Getting an MFA; what that experience was like

  • Audrey Niffenegger

    • The Time Traveler's Wife

    • Her Fearful Symmetry

• What Should Be Wild: the pitch, the (pretty spoiler-free story), influences

  • From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner

  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

  • The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

  • Doris Lessing

    • The Fifth Child

    • The Golden Notebook

• The unique challenges that face women in this culture

  • Lauren Groff Quote

• Getting those blurbs!

  • Josh Malerman

  • Leni Zumas

  • Audrey Niffenegger

  • Annie Hartnett

• Advice to early career writers

  • Augustus Rose

• Classic book Julia doesn't plan to read

• What super power would Julia choose?

• Find Julia: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook