Bianca Marais

So if you have a whole bunch of Imogen chapters and then suddenly we move on to somebody else, it can feel disorientating.

So it was...

It was great the way you balanced all of that.

Was there anything that surprised you as a debut author that you wish you'd known before the whole process?

I know the book, when is the book out?

June 2nd.

So it hasn't come out yet fully while we're taping this.

For our listeners, we tape quite far ahead.

We're taping this in April.

But where you are now, is there anything that has surprised you or that you wish you'd known or that you wish you could tell other debut authors?

Yeah, for me, the worst is the hurry up and wait.

So you'll wait for 10 months, hear nothing from anybody.

And then suddenly you'll hear from three different people who need something within the next week.

So I think that was the part that I struggled with.

Emma, it's been so lovely chatting with you.

I do want to give a shout out to Tawa.

So that's the Toronto area woman authors.

Lydia Laisby runs that.

And we get together every sort of two to three months.

And I saw Emma at one of those recently.