Session Synopsis
When Daisy Alpert Florin first entered the Gateless Writing community, she did not know that she would one day be a household name for readers.
A wild exploration into non-fiction arced into a mastery of the elements of craft and story, and she became an internationally acclaimed novelist whose work has been hailed by some of the greatest literary minds of our time.
Daisy’s novel, My Last Innocent Year, became an international bestseller and has been translated into multiple languages.
In this luminary call you will learn:
- How pages from your journal can be leveraged into a book that has been loved by the best media outlets and Hollywood names.
- What it takes to make it into the hands of a high-profile agent.
- Whether you should actually fictionalize that memoir.
- How long it takes to write the book and what makes it go faster.
- How to balance writing and family (and when to hole up in a hotel room to get it done).
- Networking Daisy-style (hint: no one does it like Daisy), and how that helps when you want to go on your big, beautiful book tour.
- When to write about ex-boyfriends and how to create a page-turner by lying about your professors.