{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Off Off Pod - Episode 025 - Author Karen Moline, Part 1","description":"My fun friend Karen Moline is a wonderful writer with a no shortage of great stories!  We we had such a long conversation (the time flew by) that I needed to break the interview up into 2 parts.  So here is part 1 today.  Come back next Friday for part 2.\r\nOne of the first things we talked about was her first novel, Lunch: A Novel of Erotic Obsession, and in the course of talking about that novel we explored a bit some of the ways writers go about getting ideas flowing and freeing themselves up to write.\r\nShe got a substantial advance for her second novel, Belladonna, (A Novel of Revenge) back in the days with publishing houses were able to do such things.  Please go to Karen's website for more information at www.KarenMoline.com.\r\nTopics covered in the interview:\r\n\r\nHello Karen! (2:20)\r\nHow Lunch was born (3:10)\r\nStories of being an entertainment journalist; the shift from print interviews to Internet (9:11)\r\nFrom the picture wall of fame – Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, and the set of Harry Potter (17:20)\r\nFunny story about John Malkovich (24:36)\r\nDiscussion about how art is created… or at least how Karen goes about it (26:36)\r\nBelladonna, (A Novel of Revenge) (30:50)\r\nAdvantages of writing with pen and ink (32:12)\r\nHow ideas for Belladonna came about (35:39)\r\nDreams for inspiration, the fun of research, take a trip to the library! (39:21)\r\nWhat Karen learned at the University of Chicago (44:24)\r\nBack to Belladonna, traveling to a location for research (49:05)\r\nWriting something that makes you squirm a bit… like an orgy scene! (53:00)\r\nMost satisfying financial moment (58:18)\r\nHow celebrities can change over time… Justin Bieber (1:00:18)\r\nTaking criticism (1:05:18)\r\nFiction is to transport you out of your head… we're all Elizabeth Bennett… and the A&E version is the best btw (1:08:46)\r\nA great interview with Mel Gibson with the benefit of a secret (1:15:48)\r\n","author_name":"Off Off Pod with Stephen Bittrich","author_url":"http:\/\/offoffpod.libsyn.com","html":"