New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist L.M. Elliott spoke with me about the heyday of magazine writing and new journalism, why research tells her what to write, and her latest novel TRUTH, LIES, AND THE QUESTIONS IN BETWEEN.

L.M. Elliott (who also writes as Laura Elliot) was an award-winning magazine journalist for 20 years before becoming the New York Times bestselling author of 14 historical and biographical novels. The three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award and winner of multiple Dateline Awards, focused primarily on women's issues and human interest profiles.

Her latest novel Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between, is described as a “‘docu-novel’ … of 1973—the year of Watergate hearings, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Roe v. Wade…” and “... [explores] a fraught political era and the dangers of disinformation, unchecked power, hate-rhetoric, and censorship.”

NYT bestselling author Sharon Cameron said of the author, “... Elliott uses the pen of a journalist and the heart of a storyteller to create a masterful, page-turning, razor-sharp commentary on a past that looks eerily like our present.”

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In this file L.M. Elliott and I discussed:

Her journey to accidental bestseller and a second career

Why there isn’t any better training than writing historical fiction

The definition of “saving string” for journalists and fictionists

How her books mix photo documentary and in-depth research

Hanging out with Emily Brontë

And a lot more!

Show Notes:

lmelliott.com

Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between by L.M. Elliott (Amazon)

L.M. Elliott Amazon Author Page

L.M. Elliott on Instagram

Kelton Reid on Twitter

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