This was a fascinating interview. Darren Pillsbury struggled as a writer for many years, and even gave up on it for a period, but in the past few years he’s been crushing it through self-publishing. Here’s his Amazon page.
That’s only part of the story, however. What you don’t see there is the bread and butter stuff that makes him a lot of money. That’s because Darren also writes women’s erotica under a (female) pseudonym, and it’s important that he maintain his secret identity. So unfortunately I can’t link you to any of those works, but he was kind enough to tell us how he discovered the market and has created a living from it.
Note: In the show I incorrectly mentioned Patricia Highsmith as being featured in the New Yorker. I misremembered the name. The article is actually about Nora Roberts.
The show opens with Sacred Love by the Bad Brains and closes with Lucius’ Turn it Around. (I love this song!)
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