Episode 57: Lea Geller, author of Trophy Life and The Truth and Other Hidden Things

Lea Geller, author of Trophy Life and The Truth and Other Hidden Things

Key Topics:

Lea Geller dishes on the inspiration behind her latest romp of a book, THE TRUTH AND OTHER HIDDEN THINGS.

Interview Notes:

Leah’s inspiration for the novel, living your life on social media, and how it’s so funny that reviewers were caught laughing out loud in the carpool line or grocery store.

Lea shares the story of Bells who starts over again as an “older” pregnant woman in her forties, and inadvertently becomes a gossip columnist in her new town in the Hudson Valley.

Known as “The Country Duchess”, her blog is full of witty observations about mason jars, man buns, and kombucha.

We chat about hipster-ness, and how it’s no longer niche, and why readers are relating so much to the book. 

Lea shares what changed in editing (that satisfying ending) and her writing advice – which involves treating writing like a job.

She talks about the joy of compulsive reading and two memoirs she’s loved recently; SUNSHINE GIRL by Julianna Margulies and BRAT by Andrew McCarthy and she’s excited to start A SPECIAL PLACE FOR WOMEN by Laura Hankin.