Note: A revisiting of an amazing chat I had with the humble Emily Henry.

#1 New York Times bestselling author, Emily Henry, returns to chat with me about depressing first drafts, what it's like to be a genre-bending, commercial fiction superstar, and her “glittering” new novel HAPPY PLACE.

Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read, and has sold over three million copies of her novels.

Her latest is Happy Place, an instant ​​#1 New York Times bestseller and her first hardcover novel, described as a book “...about reluctant exes who make a pact to pretend to date during an annual friends’ trip...”

Author Taylor Jenkins-Reid called it "Another knock-out from the champ.” The Washington Post wrote that the book, “Blur[s] the lines between women’s and literary-leaning commercial fiction, departing from the fantasy spaces of bodice rippers and misty moors to depict a world that looks a lot more like, well, our own…”

Emily's books have been featured in Buzzfeed, Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and many more. 

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In this file, Emily Henry and I discussed: 

• What it feels like to (still) be living inside a lightning strike


• Why it’s easy for her to stay humble as a writer


• How to write rom-com at the top of readers’ intelligence


• Her take on superhero movie tropes


• Why making a reader laugh is so much harder than making them cry


• And a lot more!

Show Notes:

• How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Emily Henry Writes: Part One


• emilyhenrybooks.com


• 
  Happy Place By Emily Henry (Amazon) 


• Emily Henry Amazon Author Page


• Emily Henry on Instagram


• Kelton Reid on Twitter

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