Jenny Jackson

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · June Bonus Episode · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I don't have any family in publishing.

And so

For me, again, it was like landing an editorial assistant job was so exciting and impressive to everyone in my family that, you know, I could have probably stayed an assistant for 30 years and they would be like, you are a success story.

And I would have felt good about it.

But for Caroline, like the bar was so high that getting out from under her mother's shadow was going to be difficult.

And then I also loved writing this famous thriller writer,

For me, I have created this outrageous character in her mother.

And I love to once in a while have my main characters usually are not so extra.

They're not usually so over the top.

But I like to have some secondary characters that sort of have the volume at an 11 because writing their dialogue is just so much fun for me.

So of course, Bailey and Caroline were always going to be the, you know, they're two sides of the love triangle.

But I wanted to explore marriage with this book, and I wanted to explore different kinds of relationships.

I think it is so interesting right now to be an elder millennial who is navigating marriage and parenthood with sort of a generation that has pretty different ideas about partnership than our parents' generation had.

And like all of us, I have several friends who have done it alone, women who have had babies on their own and who

single mothers and i have friends who you know have gotten divorced or are going through divorce i have friends who who have adopted i have friends who've done surrogacy and so i've really wanted to think a lot about how different partnerships can look and so for me to get into that i wanted to bring in more than just you know one character bailey who's having a baby on her own one character caroline who does not have a child i wanted to bring in fran who

has a partner, but is unwilling to marry him, even though we have children.

And then Augusta, who is so traditional and kind of just wants everybody else to be really traditional also.

And so these other characters, let me sort of take a prismatic look at marriage and relationships from different points of view.

I mean, I think that no matter what your process is as a writer, you sort of suspect you might be doing it wrong.

Honestly, whether you're writing from real life or you're making things up whole cloth and then that makes you feel like you're, you know, not being realistic enough.

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