Jessica Dettmann

In this episode, Jessica Dettmann and I talked about the writing process behind her novel This Has Been Absolutely Lovely. Jessica talks about what inspired her characters and how she uses voice to differentiate between them, how she writes a scene, her editorial process and the importance of reading your manuscript out loud, the importance of setting and how she ditched a prologue and wove the backstory into the main narrative.

You’ll find links to buy both paperback and ebook versions of This Has Been Absolutely Lovely here.

ABOUT JESSICA

Jessica Dettmann is the author of two novels, How To Be Second Best and This Has Been Absolutely Lovely. She also writes at her blog Life With Gusto. Jessica was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, and there she remains, disappointing her fourteen-year-old self who thought she would be living in the pensione in Florence from A Room With A View by now.

She is married and has two children and two cats. She does not enjoy walking on the beach with her dog because parking is very expensive at the beach and she does not have a dog. 

Before she became a writer, she worked for a long time as a book editor. 

Find Jessica online at her Website or on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Special thanks to Pamela Cook, Jodie Coullar and Cassie Hamer for your questions this week.

This podcast is recorded on the beautiful, unceded lands of the Garigal people of the Eora nation.

Full show notes available at writersbookclubpodcast.com