Jojo Moyes

No, I keep writing these books.

I put everything into them.

And for whatever reason.

And you don't know why.

They're just not taking off.

No, nobody knew why.

They all loved my writing.

They would read the books.

They would make them cry.

They would try new marketing strategies.

There was one that everybody thought was going to be huge.

And then the Richard and Judy list had just come out three weeks early.

And it was like being run over by a steamroller because everyone at that point just went for the Richard and Judy books.

And I just saw my little book just disappear under the big rolly thing.

And...

You just don't know what people are, what's going to appeal.

And my problem was I kept writing very different kinds of books and the supermarkets were very dominant in book selling at the time.

And so they wanted to know that their customers could trust what they saw on the cover.

And mine didn't fit into anything because one minute I was writing something historical.

The next minute I was writing a kind of