February 2024 Q&A with Kylie Orr on The Eleventh Floor

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

Listen to my 10th episode where I chat to Kylie Orr, the most honest author you'll ever meet. Her second novel, The Eleventh Floor will appeal to fans of Sally Hepworth's, The Soulmate.

We discuss:

• Her striking first line!
• About the book and synesthesia
• When readers think your fiction is authorbiagraphical
• Drafting and editing

Thank you for listening!

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Music credit to Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

Chapters

• 0:32 How did you come up with such a brilliant first line?
• 1:52 About the book and synesthesia
• 4:56 The dangers of writing contemporary fiction and readers assuming plots are autobiographical
• 8:06 Drafting and editing