160: #10MonthsfromStarttoDeadline

Parkland author Dave Cullen on everything you ever wanted to know about pitching and writing a topical nonfiction book at top speed (and going broke doing it).
We talked to Dave Cullen, (https://www.davecullen.com/) about writing Parkland: Birth of a Movement (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062882943) , in ten months while he was 3 years overdue on his current book.
"I'm just not gonna tell Gail," he said of his editor when he took the first assignment from Vanity Fair--but there was something going on with the Parkland students that grabbed him, and he--with the help of his agent, Betsy Lerner--grabbed it.
"I just had to."
He describes the process of writing the book, how the length, plan and due dates evolved--and how he almost went broke doing it.
#FaveIndieBookstore
Dave's #FaveIndieBookstore is Books & Books (https://booksandbooks.com/) in Miami Beach, FL. "It was the only store I specifically asked to visit on my tour."
#AmReading
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250094735)
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Letham (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375724831)
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