January 2024 Q&A with Rachael Johns on The Other Bridget

Welcome to Kelly's Writerly Q&A, a monthly blog series that is now a podcast!

FROM THE ARCHIVES Listen to my 9th episode where I chat to Rachael Johns, 'The Undisputed Queen of Australian Women's Fiction' who's published over 20 novels, including The Other Bridget. This novel will appeal to fans of Bridget Jones's Diary.

We discuss:

• Inciting Incidents
• Why The Other Bridget will appeal to writers and book lovers
• What inspired her character, Fabio?
• How important the characters, Lola and Laura are
• The gnomes
• What happened to the first manuscript Rachael ever wrote?
• How long it took Rachael to land her first publishing contract
• Paitence

There's still so much value in this chat. Thank you for listening!

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Music credit to Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

Chapters

• 1:03 Inciting Incidents x2?
• 3:03 Why this book will appeal to writers and book lovers
• 4:41 What inspired the character Fabio?
• 6:06 How important Lola and Laura's characters are
• 9:58 On the gnomes and what they added to the story
• 10:47 What happened to the first manuscript Rachael ever wrote?
• 11:46 How long it took Rachael to get published and why
• 16:01 On paitence