TEQUILA SUNRISE, SEVEN O’CLOCK THIS MORNING “But many authors don’t! So it was a really fun idea.Douglas Martin is associated with the pot like gumbo. “I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made,” she said. She also stars in the recently released “How a Book Is Made” video series commissioned by the marketing team at HarperCollins. While three fulltime employees, some newly hired interns, and Hillyer help juggle the workload of finding new writers, coming up with sellable story lines, and ushering books from the germ of an idea through publication, Oliver spends much of her day thinking about other writers’ work – even while on tour. In fact, honing and crafting projects generated by Paper Lantern Lit – the boutique “literary incubator” she and editor Lexa Hillyer (formerly with Razorbill and HarperCollins) co-founded – is very much a part of Oliver’s daily routine. Oliver got her start as an editorial assistant at Penguin’s Razorbill imprint, and she parlayed that experience into a venture of her own. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.” “I think I’m able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. And then that becomes a real book too,” she says. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I’m writing. but I do feel like my material’s been treated respectfully.”Īs far as her own approach to writing, Oliver says she’s always been disciplined and a bit of a workaholic. “That being said, TV’s not my area of expertise. “I have a close relationship with the producer ,” says Oliver, who made comments and suggestions on the script. On top of her tour, Oliver has also been working behind the scenes on a pilot for a TV series based on the Delirium trilogy, recently commissioned by Fox and starring Emma Roberts as Lena. (Oliver’s gotten so good at multitasking that she conducted the interview for this article while on a train to a reading at a school.) She’s now in the midst of a two-week blitz through London and its environs for more Requiem-related events, including a sold-out reading and signing at Waterstones Piccadilly. cities in as many days to promote the release of Requiem (HarperCollins), the final book in the Delirium trilogy. Does her schedule ever feel too packed? According to Oliver, that’s just the way she likes it. And that’s just her own writing – in 2010 she cofounded Paper Lantern Lit, helping authors hone their work. In the past three years, Lauren Oliver has published a YA novel ( Before I Fall), two middle-grade books ( Liesl & Po and The Spindlers), the internationally bestselling dystopian Delirium trilogy, and four ancillary novellas from the Delirium world.
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