Season 1. Episode 4: Karen Viggers

Irma and Craig talk about the challenges of public speaking and how to be Wonder Woman on stage.

Then they chat with Karen Viggers about the painful process of editing her latest novel and trying to find its heart, how escaping a party of screaming girls led to discovering she was a bestseller in France, the reality behind the ‘glamorous’ whirlwind of an international publicity tour, the complexity and confusion around the foreign rights process, how Instagram culture is compromising book reviewing and the feels of bad reviews on Goodreads, and the blunt nitty gritty of how much money her bestselling books have made.

About Karen
Karen Viggers is the author of four novels: The Stranding, The Lightkeeper’s Wife, The Grass Castle and The Orchardist’s Daughter. Karen’s books have been translated into many languages and French books commentator Gérard Collard has called her ‘one of the most important writers of the beginning of this century’.