I wrote one manuscript about five or six years ago, that was never agented, never published. I think there’re a lot of authors out there who say it took four or five or six books before they really kind of broke into the industry. Q: Tell us about your journey to becoming a novelist.Ī: I’m a relatively new writer and this is my debut. Scary Mommy sat down with Penner recently to talk about it all: what it feels like to write a best-selling novel, how to write characters that women really connect to, and what she’s reading now.
Now she’s a full-time writer who is thrilled that she can share her imagination with the world. each morning, lighting a candle, and getting to work on a witchy novel centered around a female apothecary who helps other women rid their lives of the men who have betrayed them. Not too long ago, she was waking up at 5 a.m. It all happened to Sarah Penner, the author of The Lost Apothecary, this month’s Scary Mommy Book Club pick.
It’s every writer’s dream: quietly writing a novel during your day job, sending it off to some agents and then-boom-before you know it, you’re on the New York Times Best Sellers list and everyone is talking about your book. Sarah Penner on empowering women, exploring betrayal, and going from day job to dream job
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