Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Women's Podcast · Author Lily King on the unexpected success of ‘Heart the Lover’ · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And I just, I mean, I was only a few pages in where I had this thought, which was, she's just having so much fun and I'm having no fun.

You know, I want to have fun.

And I just flipped to the back of my notebook that I was writing my murder mystery.

And I just started writing this college scene with these three people.

And and I never, ever looked back at that murder mystery again.

Yeah, I had I had I started to have fun immediately.

I did.

I mean, I definitely mean for that to be a college in North Carolina.

And, you know, I did also have the experience in college of meeting people who were kind of more intellectually ambitious than other people I had met in college.

And really...

change my thinking about how to approach education, basically, and how to, you know, kind of embrace my own education more seriously and sort of take my mind more seriously.

And I sort of give those things to my character, Jordan.

I wanted her to kind of have a

kind of a combination of an intellectual and emotional and a sexual awakening kind of all at once, you know, in this house.

Yeah, I mean, that kind of insecurity is something that I feel like my characters often feel.

And I think humans in general feel, and sometimes they show it and sometimes they don't, and sometimes they act the opposite of how they feel.

But that...

That interests me.

And the insecurities of youth and, you know, I write a lot about broken families and the kind of insecurities that I think that that can that you can kind of carry with you into your young adulthood and things that you have to really work out about that.

You know, those things interest me.

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