Few books and films have simultaneously upended the publishing and movie industry the way GONE GIRL did in 2012/2014. Celebrated thriller author, Jaime Lynn Hendricks, joins Emily J. Edwards this week on the podcast to discuss all the ways the story of Amy and Nick disrupted our understanding of happy marriages, suburbia, and what you can do in a domestic thriller.
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Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction and Book Discussion
- 01:40 Writing and Publishing Journey
- 03:19 Challenges and Rejections
- 10:33 Cinematic Adaptation
- 24:38 The Cathartic Experience
- 25:11 The Legacy of Gone Girl
- 26:16 The Real-Life Impact
- 33:38 The Ending: Book vs. Movie
- 48:27 The Duality of Good vs. Evil
Transcript:
Emily Edwards (she/her): Greetings, gumshoes, and welcome to another episode of Silver Screen Sleuths. My name is Emily Edwards, and I am a mystery author of the Viviana Valentine Girl Friday series that came out a million years ago that nobody read. I am here today with a very, very lovely thriller author who I’m so excited to talk about, like, the book that changed modern thriller publishing. J.B. Lynn Hendrix, how the hell are you?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Good, how the hell are you?
Emily Edwards (she/her): I am so good. I love seeing your smiling face because we’ve been friends via the internet for a little while, but now I get to hear a voice and see a face and talk with my hands at you apparently.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Stop doing what it does. Get me going.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I have knocked this mic over like countless thousands of times.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I’m like you can’t see, but I’m like two feet away from my desk because things are gonna go flying.
Emily Edwards (she/her): We are discussing Gillian Flynn, the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, which she wrote the screenplay for, and
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes. And you can tell.
Emily Edwards (she/her): you can tell, for a little known director named David Fincher. just, you know, he’s
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Mm. Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): up and coming. Not sure if you’ve ever heard of him before. Just, you know.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I I maybe heard of one other thing, but you know
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, just a swell young guy. I did the book many years ago for my old podcast called Fuck Boys of Literature. did that with a English writer named Philip Ellis, who now writes rom-coms. And I was like, you chose the most insane book to talk about if you’re a rom-com writer. But thankfully, you’re a thriller writer. So we get to get into
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): the nitty gritty of the thriller. Can you tell us a little bit about the books that you’ve written and published and your career.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes, and I should have I’m an idiot. I should have just grabbed this real quick. This was my debut. This was my debut finding Tessa. And this was actually pitched as Gone Girl Meets Dear Wife by Kimberly Bell. Because it’s basically it starts out the same way, but not really. it starts out with like chapter one where the wife is missing, there’s like broken glass and hair, and the husband comes home and Obviously he calls the cops and they don’t believe him. And it’s his sections are written in third person. So he’s obviously there there are things going on that he is not, you know, he’s like, thank God I, you know, they ask how the marriage was, and he’s like, you know, in his own mind, he’s like, okay, I gotta lie here.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
he’s like, thank God I burned the note. I wrote to her this morning, and like, you know, all all this, all this stuff. But then it immediately goes to chapter two and it goes to Tessa. in first person and she is running from her husband who you just she’s got a a very long line of assholes that she has been with and she has not she has not done well at all with love everybody’s an asshole everybody was either abusive or just whether it was physically emotionally like everything she has just been for the ringer and she has just left the most current asshole and she is setting him up to take her fall so you know she’s alive from the beginning and you know
Emily Edwards (she/her): That’s good.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
that Jace is so it’s Jace and Tessa. So you know, Jace is also under the microscope immediately. The thing that’s completely different about this, you’ll think you’re reading Gone Girl until about a third of the way through, and then it’s just like there is a completely different twist that it that makes you realize, like, I am not reading Gone Girl at all. This is a completely different book. And it really, really takes it on a completely different trajectory than you thought that you were going. which I liked and which is why it was I I guess a good book for it to be my debut. actually the one that got my first agent was actually called It Could Be Anyone. It’s that one up there. I don’t think
Emily Edwards (she/her): Bye!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
it’s coming up again. that one got my agent, but as you know, the way you know publishing is very extra, it died on sub. And but also we found out when that was on sub. The guest list by Lucy Foley was an arc stage. And it was similar with like murder wedding and the whole thing. So that one was getting all the attention. So everyone was just like, no, this is like too similar. But how was I supposed to know? Like obviously
Emily Edwards (she/her): Right?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
she would have written that like two years before this was even a thought in my head. So but you know, that was really unfortunate. But I was writing Finding Tessa as soon as we went on sub. So it was finished. and I think it was April of 2000, I finished it. Because that went on sub in September of 19. And then I finished writing this in April of 2000. We put it on sub shortly after. my old agent loves this book. And she actually said I wouldn’t change a word. So we went on sub with it exactly the way it was. And you know how like you get opinions back when you get a rejection, it said they say
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
like this isn’t for me because. so one of them said because and look, I’ll I’ll just say what the original ending was because it’s not this anymore.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
they said it was because it was July of 2020. Now, if you remember at all what July of 2020 was like.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
you know, we weren’t combing hair and like eating ice cream cones and you know, life was
Emily Edwards (she/her): No.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
not fun. Life was just as dreadful as can be and about to get worse. And
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, and you were terrified all the time.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
yes, so we got the first rejection that said, I cannot deal with the fact that a pregnant lady dies. So It was like, okay. And you know, my old agent said, like, one person’s rejection is one person’s rejection. So, you know, let it go. but then four came back and said the same thing. She was like, Okay,
Emily Edwards (she/her): yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
we have to rewrite the last half of the book. So I I’m actually very, very fast when I know I have to. I rewrote the entire last half of the book in about ten days.
Emily Edwards (she/her): my God.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
And yeah. And then it went back on sub and it sold two weeks later. So like obviously the problem was that she was pregnant and then died at the end. So she is not pregnant and dead at the end for anybody who, you know, doesn’t want to read anything like that. She is not pregnant and dead at the end, I promise you.
Emily Edwards (she/her): It’s genuine. I’m so glad you went into that because one of the things that we don’t talk about a lot, even though I’ve only had authors on this show, is the really circuitous, complicated route to getting published. It’s such a… I
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Complicated, it’s an understatement.
Emily Edwards (she/her): can’t even tell you just the amount… of work that you have to do before you’re even a twinkle in an agent’s eye is just such an astronomical amount of work. You have to figure out who you are as a person, what you’re comfortable writing, your tone, the vocabulary
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Your voice.
Emily Edwards (she/her): you use that’s natural for you, the cadence that you use that’s natural for you, what you want to accomplish with the stories that you’re going to tell because you will get pushed into a niche very, very quickly the second
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): anybody looks at you. And I think that that is such an important thing to know about yourself if you do want to have any sort of longevity or success in the industry is you have to know what you’re going to be comfortable sort of being pigeonholed as. that’s not a negative. It’s like you have to…
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I know I was definitely pigeonholed as a popcorn thriller author, which I am perfectly comfortable with that because that’s my favorite thing to read anyway. So I’m like, yeah,
Emily Edwards (she/her): Exactly.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
man, like give me like the twists and the fast pace and like, you know, the mean people and like, you know, rich people behaving badly and and all that. Like I love stuff like that. So I’m perfectly happy being
Emily Edwards (she/her): There’s so much meat there.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
a popcorn thriller.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, mean, popcorn thriller is, I pick them up like most of the time. I oscillate between like as a reader, like a couple of like really weird sort of genres. It’s really old mysteries, like stuff written in like the 1920s where you’re just kind of like, exactly, exactly.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Fedora and the cigar.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Like I got really into the the Miss Silver mysteries, which is like this very like old sort of very Victorian, like post Victorian. barely after mystery series where it’s like everybody ends up getting married at the end. And it’s like the most ridiculous fluffy thing, but it was written in like 1930. I read a lot of popcorn thrillers because they’re so meaty and you just love that experience of like rich people behaving badly or like what are your neighbor’s dirty secrets? It’s so
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): fun to read. And then I read like really heavy duty nonfiction where you’re just like, yeah, I’m gonna read 600 pages about the life of Paul Revere. And people are like, Who the hell are you and why are you doing this?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I stick with thrillers. They’re not all popcorn thrillers, but I mean it’s the other side. There’s there’s there’s quite
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
a few, and that’s just one of the three shelves I have in here that are other books. but they are mostly popcorn thrillers. I I just, you know, I I these I love them. They’re, you know, everybody that like you see on like Bookstigram and everything that all the Like Ashley Winstead and Michelle Campbell
Emily Edwards (she/her): yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
and Sam Bailey and Robin Harding, like, you know, it’s just give me everything. I just I vacuum them. It’s it’s great.
Emily Edwards (she/her): It’s so great. I love the fact when you do stumble, you know, everything now, it’s difficult when you are selling a book that is lightly tangentially similar, because you do have to position your books when you’re talking to agents or you’re talking to acquisition editors, you have to say, it’s like this meets this in order for them to have a concept of the marketability or it’s just even the market shelf of the book that you’re trying to sell.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right, but it can’t be the plot. It has to be like the same reader, you know?
Emily Edwards (she/her): Exactly, exactly. then oftentimes, especially now, you get, don’t position it as the next Gone Girl, even though it might be the same reader, because
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
yeah, that’s that’s dead.
Emily Edwards (she/her): this book took, like fundamentally changed how we view like women in thrillers. And it’s so fascinating.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. Like this was twenty twenty, so it was only four years later, but now it’s ten years later and it’s like you you can’t now. It’s a it’s a ten year old book now. It it just it doesn’t resonate. There have been other the new gone girls that are better comps, I think, for for for people now.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, yeah. And it’s strange how explosive this book and its immediate movie adaptation, because the release of the film adaptation coincided with the release of the book in paperback. That’s how fast it was.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
That was
Emily Edwards (she/her): Gillian Flynn must have sold, she sold millions and millions of copies of this book.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Millions. Yep. Because it was a first of its kind with like that massive crazy change of a dual POV and and also like a a a real villain that you didn’t think was a real villain. You know, like it was I loved it.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes, I want to go back to the dual POV because that’s something that’s done very well in the book and I think exceptionally well in the movie.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes, agreed.
Emily Edwards (she/her): And for some reason, like David Fincher is not necessarily a director, as much as I really love his books, is not a director who I think has any real history of being known as like sympathetic to women. But I think when you get to Amy, exactly, I mean, like
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. We’ve all seen Pike Club.
Emily Edwards (she/her): not notoriously a friend to feminist narratives at large, but I think giving him Amy to work with, the way that even just the, cause she’s nuts.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Because she’s nuts. Yeah. Yep. And that’s why I think it that’s why I think the movie translated so well because because she was not and you got, you know, the right director for that movie.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like, one thing, what’s really great is you spend so much time with Ben Affleck, who, again, for as much as we know about that man’s personal life,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Perfect.
Emily Edwards (she/her): incredible casting of him in this, like…
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
yeah, I know. Could you imagine? It’s like his real life.
Emily Edwards (she/her): that dude, like, he just can’t help himself with like the being known to everybody.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): and it translates so well to screen where you are watching this and you’re just kind of like, this could be a story out of Ben Affleck’s actual life because of how well we know all of his
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
And I love how the book and the movie, when because you know, like the first half of the book is all him, and you’re like, what a fucking scumbag! Like just he’s just the worst. And then and he never changes. He always is the worst, but somehow you get a little bit of sympathy for him because she’s worse. And it’s like, my God, how are you dealing with this freaking cycle? Like, I don’t blame you for doing everything that you’re doing.
Emily Edwards (she/her): oh my God, you’re an older man and you’re having sex with a 20 year old who you’re
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Mm-hmm.
Emily Edwards (she/her): a teacher and you’re just like, oh my God, you’re so scummy. You are so terrible. And then you meet his wife and you’re just like, nah, I get it.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yep. But no, no, she is literally the worst.
Emily Edwards (she/her): She’s so awful. I have to say that one of the things that really grabbed me for the first half of this movie is the cinematography is so dark. The cinematography, everything, you can’t see shit while you’re watching this movie. And you know.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, you have to watch it at night with like everything off. You can’t watch it during the daytime.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Exactly. had to like draw all my curtains and you know, like turn everything down so you can see it. And one of the things, whoever was the location scout on this movie in order to choose where they filmed earned their,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
That’s exactly how I pictured it.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I’m sorry.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Exactly how I pictured it. Yep.
Emily Edwards (she/her): It was perfect in that creepy neighborhood where they are filming, where it’s all like the Mick mansions and there’s no fences. And I was just
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right.
Emily Edwards (she/her): like, that’s my personal hell. That is literally my personal hell.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
And then you get and then you get the the what you find out are like the crazy neighbors who he had no idea they were even like friends. And then they’re all coming over and and it’s like, okay, like who the hell are you? It’s we come over here all the time. It’s like, excuse me.
Emily Edwards (she/her): This is like the suburban nightmare of this.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): And my favorite thing is like his and Amy’s house that they’re renting, they’re not owners, they’re renting, is
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Mm-hmm.
Emily Edwards (she/her): that house in the Plants community that sucks because it’s like on the peninsula. And so they’re surrounded on three sides by people just watching their house. And I was like… my God. are like the location scout for this
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Hmm.
Emily Edwards (she/her): just earned every last cent of how they made like how they chose what neighborhood to do this in. It was flawless. was
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
And it’s funny because I moved into a neighborhood in December of twenty twenty, but it’s in Florida on like a a small like barrier island off St. Pete Beach. And
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
everybody who lives here is like in their sixties and retired. Like I don’t I don’t know. I I mean I know one of my neighbors because I knew him before I moved I moved into this neighborhood. Other than that, I’ve been here almost three years. I don’t know any of my neighbors because nobody’s coming out, no one’s baking a cake together, no one’s borrowing a cup of sugar, like No nobody talks to anybody and like this is the best place to move.
Emily Edwards (she/her): love living in cities, because I’m just like, the anonymity of it is so nice. And I
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): love how well this book, and again, Gillian’s actual adaptation to the screen is so faithful to a point to her book that she’s
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): just like, yeah, the worst thing in the world. Because You’re gonna understand this because I kept writing in my notes over and over. My God, they hate New Yorkers so much.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Uh-huh. But that came from Boston Ben. He
Emily Edwards (she/her): That’s true.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
ha that’s why he was solely true to life, because he hates New Yorkers. He’s a Boston guy. He’s a Red Sox guy.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I heard, I remember at some point he’s trying to stay anonymous and he puts on a Yankees hat and he
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes, and they made him take it off. Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): was really pissed that they made him put on the Yankees hat because he wanted to wear a socks
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): hat. And it was just like, jerk.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
But that’s but that shows just like so much about his personality and like but but in that scene he’s like n nasty and angry and like but I think it was because of the hat, but it was also because of his character. So I think it fit really well.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, it’s better. it. I, this movie is interesting because like once they moved to Missouri and like again, I’ve driven through Missouri and I, you know, and I’m like, I know very little about Missouri, sorry, Missourians. And Amy’s so mad that she had to move to this little,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): this tiny little town. And then like, yes,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Or his incestuous family.
Emily Edwards (she/her): God, I’m so sorry. You have to like take care of your mother and get to know his sister. you horrible little sociopath. You have to be known
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. Mm hmm. Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): to people.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Well, she already was. She was she was what amazing Amy. So she was like she was known.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I had completely forgotten about that detail of the book until the movie played it out in such wonderful detail. I had completely forgotten about that she was fictionalized to be the perfect daughter. And I’m
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): like, God, you’re right. That is, it hadn’t stuck with me because everything else overshadows it so much. you know, like the sociopathy and the murder eventually, you know, overshadows it so much. the first thing I wrote down, I was like, my God, all the Instagram kids that are being used now, what are they going to come to?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. Exactly right. And that’s the thing. Like she hated it, but she loved it. Like she was such a narcissist. Such a narcissist.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Like just to think of who the hell she was and she can get away with anything, which she did when it
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
comes down to it. but yeah, it was just because she was like her character was just so terrible, so terrible.
Emily Edwards (she/her): the movie spends a lot of time having him interact with her parents and the
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): visual of watching him do Midwestern nice while the parents are doing this really understandable angry grieving because they don’t know what’s happening, but they’re intelligent enough to know that it’s usually the husband. And you know, again, all the clues start pointing to it being the husband because both that’s how investigations go and Amy is smart enough to point them in that direction. And they get so, I don’t know, it, they get so performatively like extremely bitter and angry. And there’s a point where they’re doing like a search next to a river and she’s just like, and the mother is just like so furious. And she’s just like, this whole place smells like shit.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. That’s somebody coming from New York City who says it smells like shit. I mean, wow. But that was just
Emily Edwards (she/her): Exactly. Yeah, we’ve smelled those rivers.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
like to be insulting because they were, you know, they were little
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm. I know.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
thing snobby little things. And then to find out after that, like what did what happened? Like their publisher like pulled them or something and and like all of a sudden like they were gonna fade into nothingness and like they were just being bitter bitches. I mean you know.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah. Yeah, no, I love that detail because I don’t remember that in the book. It’s just been so long since I’ve read the book that Amy had to sell her brownstone at a loss in the 2008 crisis,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right.
Emily Edwards (she/her): which like you had a brownstone, you still probably made $3 million off of that.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Exactly. I lived in New York City from 2002, the beginning of 2002. I moved a few months after nine eleven. right up until the end of 2008. that’s when I moved to suburban New Jersey. And when I lived in I’m sorry, I moved to Hoboken in two thousand and eight and I was there for eight years. Then I moved to suburban New Jersey. but in the time that I was in New York City, it was actually great because it was right after nine eleven and everybody was friendly to everybody and everybody was like one type of person. And then
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
like it just started getting toward the end, which is why I left. It just started getting like you could just kind of see the writing on the wall just started like exploding, things were starting to get like crazy. So I was just like, I’m just moving across the river. So we just went to Homan and
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, and my husband was like, No, we’re gonna I d I he wanted to go straight from midtown Manhattan because we were on thirty sixth and seventh no, thirty-seventh and sixth. And he wanted to go straight from there to like Bergen County, New Jersey. And I said I would sooner die. So we and we he wanted to buy a place. So I we’ll we’ll c we’ll we’ll buy we’ll buy one of the new condos in Hoboken. So he said, Fine, but we’ll be there for three years, five tops, and then we’re moving to suburban New Jersey. So after eight years, because I was in the employer.
Emily Edwards (she/her): You compromised.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I said fine we could move to suburban New Jersey, but it’s gotta be Monmouth County where I grew up because if I’m gonna
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
be in Suburbia, I wanna be around my family and my friends and I don’t I’m not going to you know I’m not going to to Burton County. So so we did that and then we lived there for six years before we moved to Florida. So I’m never moving again.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah. We have the acceptable radius of how far outside the city you’re willing to live.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, exactly. And and I don’t care. And Bergen County was closer, but I’m like, don’t care. I am not going there. I am
Emily Edwards (she/her): No.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
not real housewifing of everything of anything. Like, nah, No way. And so my friends lived up there and it was like
Emily Edwards (she/her): Uh-uh, no. I can’t wear four inch heels the way that’s required.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
and they all had like, you know, they all had kids. So it was like you hear about the drive line, the drop off line, and then like how you have to dress up to go get coffee and you need your your hair done and your your heels on to go get coffee. And I’m like, Yeah, that’s no. They’re
Emily Edwards (she/her): No.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
not gonna like me. I’m not going there.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, I moved
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): back to Connecticut very briefly. Like I always lived on the Metro North Line. Like you can always get on the train and go into the city directly Grand Central Station. You’re there in 90 minutes. And so it’s like, that’s an acceptable distance to me. And then a couple during the pandemic, 2020, what to we moved back to Connecticut, because we were like, it’s so much less expensive. And we did. And it was like, God. God. Like the yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
That it started.
Emily Edwards (she/her): And the child focus is very alarming when you don’t have kids. You know, don’t notice it when you are a kid because you’re like, great, everything revolves around me and my happiness. But then once you’re an adult and you don’t have children, the baby focus is very surprising.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, I called it the I call it the stroller mafia.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, yeah. And then it’s like, you know, you’re you’re gonna get run down by a Honda Odyssey in whatever parking lot you’re in because
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Did you see the like the controversy on threads right now about that kid who who the the the s som they were in restaurant and somebody was having a birthday and the toddler said that she
Emily Edwards (she/her): I
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
wanted the cake and the parents were like, my toddler gets what my toddler wants. And like they just let the kid go and like interrupt somebody else’s family celebration and be like, I want cake. And like that’s so embarrassing. And I bet everybody there didn’t want to be like, my god, like we’re not gonna you know deny a child and like And then the parents, like, see, they were so nice. They wanted to give it to her. No, the fuck they didn’t. They don’t want your kid around their adult-only celebration. But these parents with these kids that are obsessed with their children do not understand that. The ones who are like,
Emily Edwards (she/her): It’s-
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
My precious todd toddler gets whatever my precious toddler wants. Like, no, bring your toddler to my table. Your toddler’s getting yeeted to the moon.
Emily Edwards (she/her): from you maybe, but everybody else did not give birth to that toddler. That’s insane understanding of how the world works. Yeah, I saw that and I was like, I need to nope out of this conversation because I am going to be way too mean.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah. But that was the the other thing like in the in the book too, how you know, with with the the pregnancy and
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
whatever. I don’t even no no no, she ended up really being pregnant at the end. Right. but like
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, yeah, she like.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
faking it first just to get the sympathy from the the stroller mafia people.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
like that’s insane. Like that’s insane. And also she was
Emily Edwards (she/her): It’s insane.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
planning on leaving and for the like her plan was to kill herself until
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
she got caught with with what’s his name? Neil Patrick Harris when he
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
when he did not play along the way that she was she had thought he was going to. She had a she had a pivot and
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes! Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
then she had to go back and she did not want to go back. And he didn’t want her back. I just remember like when he hugged her, he’s like, fuck you. This is okay.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes, which is like the most realistic cathartic thing I’ve ever seen in a movie where it’s just like, and he’s just like, you are such a fucking bitch. And it’s like, yeah,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yep. With all the cameras on them. so great. Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): that is the most well-deserved you’re a bitch I’ve ever seen on screen.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Maybe. Yep.
Emily Edwards (she/her): But while I was watching this, like, I feel like the world has changed so much since this came out in that like, When it came out, it was this really revolutionary sort of, again, to use the word cathartic of just like, my God, we get to watch women be evil. And it was so nice. It was so nice to see this.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes, because it’s trust me, it’s in us.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Exactly. It’s like we’ve all had that fantasy where we, you know, it’s like I, I played field hockey for a couple of years when I was in high school. And whenever I see some guy being a real piece of shit, I have the mental image of myself walking up to him with those big club sticks that we had and just cracking them across the jaw, teeth go fly. We all have this, like this moment where we’re just like, my weapon of choice is this. And this is how I would utilize it against this absolute piece of shit and we all have it in us so much.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
And that’s why right that’s why that’s why thriller writers are the among the nicest people you will ever meet because we kill them on page. We think about the and then we literally do it on page and it is very cathartic.
Emily Edwards (she/her): It really is. It’s such a wonderful therapy. And the way we were allowed to revel in that anger, that tumultuous thing where it’s like for years, for generations, we’ve had this nastiness and we’re just like, my God, you have to bury it down and then just become little Susie Homemaker with a perfect
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): smile. And you’re just like, I hate it. I hate it. hate it. You it’s like you had Valley of the Dolls in the 70s where we’re like, we’re angry. So we’re just going to do drugs about it. And you’re just like, great, no problem.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. Okay. You do you.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I get it. Totally. Like you’re not allowed to have a credit card or a job. So I get it. Just do drugs about it. Fantastic. And then this came along and we were like, we’re allowed to have our own credit cards and rent apartments and buy cars and surf on a jury. And so we can get even, we can just revel. one of the things that’s really interesting about how women work in fiction and how we’re received as characters is that men, male characters are out to be individuals, whereas like female characters are often seen as indicative of all women.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Well, we’re try to make
Emily Edwards (she/her): And so I feel like a lot of the legacy of Gone Girl, unfortunately, has kind of been like, see all women are, you know, like this level or can attain or aspire to like this level of sociopathy.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Thank God.
Emily Edwards (she/her): And I feel like in our current political climate, that sort of kind of gets twisted, but I might be overly negative.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
no, I think I think people are angry. I think people are angry. I I think like people are angry and I think people are rightfully angry. I also think some people take it too far. I there’s this new thing about,
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
you know, people like all people all the time, men and women and both sides of the aisle, like putting hands on people. And I don’t like that. Like you could disagree with somebody without having to put your hands on them.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
You know, and that’s like a new thing that people are doing that they just feel entitled to. And I was like, Where the hell did this come from? Like that’s like a new type
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
of of anger. I I I I would rather do anger Amy’s way and just, you know, fake my death and then, you know, frame my husband.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Exactly! That’s art. Anybody can throw a punch. This is artful.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes. Yes. Anybody could cry and stomp their f their hands and their feet, but you know, I’d rather know I I actually like the you know the planning aspect of it. And like this is how I’m gonna not get caught. And trust me, I’m an expert at that. My husband sleeps with one eye open because he’s like she could she could take me out at any moment and she will get away with it.
Emily Edwards (she/her): That’s one of the things that I actually kept thinking while watching this movie. was like, you know, like no fault divorce exists. Like it’s a very simple thing. also happy marriages exist. Like you could just marry
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah.
Emily Edwards (she/her): someone you like.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes, that too. But to be fair, well, no, she didn’t marry someone she liked. She said from the beginning she she played a character from the second she met him. but I I f yes, I definitely think you can just marry someone you like. I think there are I think you’d find that you actually like people more than you don’t. And you could marry one of them. Like, but there’s just this like epidemic now. It’s like, if I I’ll marry him, if I don’t like him, I’ll just you know. I’ll just get divorced. And like the red flags are there in the beginning. Like when you’re dating, the red flags are there. Like, why are you marrying this guy? Why are you marrying walking red flags?
Emily Edwards (she/her): Why are you doing this?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, like it’s your own fault now. Like you’re marrying a walking red flag. Like the the signs were there. Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): You can’t fix a bad boy. We know this.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
God. Well, and see, and I still blame Dylan McKay for that. Like That was when we all
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
got obsessed with Mr. Bad Boy. It was Dylan McKay and you know, we won’t see it any different.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I had Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where you’re just kind of like, neither Angel or Spike are worth you trying to fix them. They’re literal demons.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I’m literally the only person on the face of the earth who has never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Emily Edwards (she/her): One of the things that I think is really genius about Gone Girl, and both the movie and the book, is that… And one thing that I noticed when I was talking about Zodiac, another tiny little flick from our pal David Fincher, was that Zodiac works really well because of the structure of it, in that it’s him sort of going into analyzing the private investigator versus police procedural… versus amateur sleuth sort of construct of how we think about mystery fiction. The thing that Gone Girl, I think, does really well is that you have the tropes of the who done it, the why done it, and the how catch them. And it’s all of them all at once. And I was wondering,
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): do you write thrillers through the perspective of like the… Do you go for like the thrill and the twist first or do you also really put some time into thinking about like the crime at hand and how the people investigating it are going to be like looking into it?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Well, with with mine, there like I said, the the murder is always very popcorn y. it’s not it’s it’s very rarely on the page. and if it is on the page, it’s like a you know, like on on it could be anyone. the the groom dies halfway through page one. He he ate a knot he got poisoned and he just like drops dead on the dance floor. that was I think the only on page murder that I had. well wait, I had one other one, but it was like it was like a flashback from like what they did in high school and you know, but all of my murders are just like, there’s
Emily Edwards (she/her): yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
a dead body. Like, or now I’m doing something about, you know, this this dead body. But I actually do not have my characters are I I they’re not cozy. Like they don’t sleuth around. They kind of are all
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
are like at some point like either friends with the dead person or they’re the somebody in their family is friends with the dead person and they’re just They’re not trying to figure it out. They’re just kind of being played into this scenario where they are somehow connected to this dead person. And I don’t have a lot of I don’t do any police pro procedural at all. like I may have a detective who’s gonna ask questions every once in a while, but it’s not you never get a detective’s or a cop’s pe point of view with me. That’s just that’s not my thing. Mine are all, you know, the cul-de-sac killers. Where you
Emily Edwards (she/her): Right.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
know, like a neighbor died or like, you know, somebody died. And then like the the friends and stuff like want to know why. And like they’re asked some questions, but you know, by the by the police, but then like they start figuring out, like as they talk to each other, like, like my husband was, you know, the giving her lessons on this. Like, I didn’t know that. And then the other one, well, I was the my she was a patient of my husband’s. I didn’t know that. And then it’s like, well, and then he says, Well, I can’t because of HIPAA laws. Like, why would I tell you that she’s my patient? But then it’s like, Well, I’m your wife and she’s dead and now they’re looking at you because like, you know, she had your card on her when when she was found and her body was found. Like, what’s going on? And it’s basically like that. It’s basically like the suburban conversation surrounding the death. It’s not it’s not it’s not there’s no true crime like podcast doing it. There’s no there’s no police like, you know, it in
Emily Edwards (she/her): Right.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
the thing. It’s just very much like not that the neighbors are solving it either. but the the neighbors are putting together the the whys, the whys a little bit better than like the cops
Emily Edwards (she/her): write the information.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
are. Yeah. Because that’s the thing. Like,
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
you know, as they talk to each other, it’s like, okay, well, one of them had a secret about the other one that they never said anything. But now that, you know, you’re not gonna get in trouble for saying anything, like I I’ve got to tell you now because like she’s dead and this might be relevant. and this is what she said
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
about the other one, and this is what she did with the other one. And You know, we’re we’re all friends, like and we never knew. so yeah, I I actually prefer that because to me that’s a little bit more real life because we live in such a world of drama and scandal and you know, real housewives of stuff and people like just making the biggest deal out of it. Like everybody’s in each other’s business. So I I don’t do any real housewife of anything. I’m not on that level, but
Emily Edwards (she/her): Neither.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
But I do like how they they kind of eke things out of each other. and not with not with throwing tables at them, but with like, you know,
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
just kind of like, you know, just talking to them in a certain way, like that you know that you can get something out of them. And and I think friends could do that to each other and neighbors can do that to each other, and normal people can do that to each other better than a cop can, because when people are talking to a cop, they are inherently nervous. And they’re not gonna say what
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
they know they can’t say. But in front of somebody regular, I feel like people are are easier to read. They’ll say a lot more because they can, and they don’t know what
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
they’re saying is completely relevant. So I I like it that way. I like it that way. I like having like all these like connections with, you know, neighbors and friends, and you know, with with I didn’t do it, that was like murder at Thriller Fest and one of the One of the thriller authors is dead in a hotel room. And then you find out that the four authors, which is a four points of view, all had a secret that was attached to her. And the only person that knows is a Twitter account. And it starts following these four, and then it starts like doling out these little things. And then these four find out, like, wow, we’re the only ones like attached to this that this Twitter account is following. And it’s like spilling all these secrets. And it was fun because it was like one was Like a total newbie author. Like she just got an age and she hasn’t even published yet. So she’s like trying to kiss everyone’s ass and like do the whole thing. And the other one is like a mid list author, which is basically like ninety percent of authors. Just you’re just a regular author, you’re writing books, you’re you know, you’re you’re selling them, you’re not super famous, you’re not on any talk shows or Reese or you know, Good Morning America. So
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
most authors, and then there’s one who is ego maniac. And he was not at all written about anybody that we know. but like you can’t
Emily Edwards (she/her): No.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
like he was like super famous and like all of his his like debut was optioned before it’s even out, like three months before it’s even out, and you can’t look him in the eye when you speak to him, and he’s just total douchey, like horrible person. And then the other one is a has been, and he was very big in like the 80s and 90s, and all of his last four books flopped, and he’s got this big comeback secret. and he’s trying to, you know, come back. And I think I liked the the way the four of them played off of each other because they were in such different spots in their writing careers. So I think they
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
said way more to each other than they would ever say to a cop investigating about another dead mur a dead author’s murder. They’re talking to each other about like,
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
this is what we write about, this is what we do, this is how my character would do it. so I I I liked I liked that one. ‘Cause that was that was very close to
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
home. So that was very easy to write.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I, when I heard like the log line for that book, I was like, that’s the best idea I’ve ever heard. It is so good. I love that conceit for that book.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, his thriller writer conventions can be murder. That’s the that’s the the log line. It was a good one. Yeah, my publisher came up with that one.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I love it. I love it. I think one thing that worked really well, again, Ben Affleck was perfect casting for Nick in this movie. And I appreciate that they gave him a sister and another woman to do all the emotional labor for him. And I felt like that was so… very true to life and that he’s
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
And she did, like she was she treated him like a toddler.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm. It’s incredible. I, with weird casting, but Tyler Perry as his like high powered husband murder lawyer, such good
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Always have a lawyer. Great. So great.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Because there’s a couple of really good famous divorce lawyers that you know if this one person gets this one celebrity divorce lawyer, you’re like, can’t wait to see what happens in this because it’s going to get messy.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, because there’s like, yeah, I mean, there’s like five five of them out there. I mean, at the time Johnny Cochrane was still alive, like that would have been great. But but you know, there’s like the famous
Emily Edwards (she/her): Right, right.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
divorce lawyers like out out out in in in LA that every time like famous celebrity couples get in divorce, like they hire these two lawyers because they’re the best. And that’s why this one cut is and again, they’ll do it not that they were famous, but the case was famous, and these people just want their face on television. So the fact that it was Tyler
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Perry. just it just was like comedic relief. And he it didn’t mean to be, but it just was because that’s just his personality.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah. Yeah, exactly, because he’s so larger than life and he delivers
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): every line where it’s like, you’re a dumbass and you’re going to go to jail for this. true enough, like he almost goes to jail many times.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Right. And some like scary buttoned up lawyer wouldn’t say that. So but it but it it came off
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
perfectly.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Now, you mentioned that, like at the top of the recording, that the ending changed. Can you kind of go into detail? Because I remember the ending being fairly different in the book, but the ending in the movie is just so perfect that I was
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes.
Emily Edwards (she/her): like, I’m now like a little fuzzy on what they changed from the book ending.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Well, I remember when I was reading it, which I do not have my first edition hardcover anymore because I lent it to my neighbor when I lived in Hoboken and her dog destroyed it and I don’t have it anymore.
Emily Edwards (she/her): No!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
So I haven’t reread it since I read it. But I do remember thinking when I was at like the la I’m like reading it like this and I’m like this. I’m like right here. Okay. I’m like right here. And I’m like, there is so much left in this
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
book. Like, is this a s like is this a part one? Because I don’t read series. And I’m like, how are they how are they finishing it in in these three pages? And I remember I was like, there’s no way this is gonna get finished in three pages. And then it they just did. All they did was just end it. It was just like at the time, like she had just gotten home. They were giving the interview with the the the the you know Sitting on their couch when they tell everybody that they’re pregnant and everything. And that’s like how it ended. It was just like, okay, they just told everybody they’re pregnant and like the end. And I was like, and like even leading up to that, there wasn’t much. And you know, like you hear that thing about like a rushed ending, like the whole book is so goddamn good. And then like you have a very rushed ending. That’s what
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I felt like with this. I mean, this that book was I mean, it took off be because it did, because it was so, so, so good.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
But the ending was so rushed. But in the end of the movie, I think they rushed it too, but leading up to it, you can tell, like, which I was not able to tell at the end of the book. I had to wait until the movie came out before I understood the end of the before I understood the end of the book. Was that because it was done and again, because this was Ben Affleck being so like hard and playing the part so well
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
and being so well cast for it, and Amy being the sociopath and just everything’s well, whatever, you know, blah, blah, blah. I I found out at the end of the movie that they were now stuck with each other. Like the whole thing was he said
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
like flat out, like, I am divorcing you, I do I do not love you, I do not I I mean I was gonna divorce you before you disappear, but I’m still divorcing you. And she’s just like, No, you’re not. And like she made it so that like when she goes on TV and says she’s pregnant, he cannot divorce her now. They are America’s sweetheart couple, they have to they have to be together forever. And he is stuck. But you know what? She don’t want to be with him either. So she is now stuck. Like
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
she’s like this poor baby. But like I like
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes!
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I feel I like she she stuck with him because she wanted nothing than to be with him as the character he wanted her to be. And she turned back into that character, even though he the mask is already off. He already knows. But to everybody else,
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
he’s amazing, Amy, and to everybody else now. Everybody who gave him the bad rap is, my God, you were murdered her, and blah blah blah. Everyone’s like, my God, you really were the loving husband who was just looking for her, and you’re you’re so happy she’s back. And now, my God, you’re gonna have a family. So like they but they hate each other. But it was portrayed
Emily Edwards (she/her): So much.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
much closer in the movie than it was on the page in the book. I did not get it. I was just like, all right, this book just ended, like without.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
resolution. Okay, so like they had it be and now it’s it’s ended. Like I didn’t get the hatred that they had for each other dripping off the page at at at the end of the book, but I got the hatred dripping off of them in the movie.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, yeah. And I really, one of my favorite bits of the end on film is that he has a camaraderie with the detective that’s been looking into Amy’s disappearance and him as a suspect. All of a sudden, but
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
yeah, all of a sudden. All of a sudden, she’s just like sitting with them at lunch. She’s his best friend. I’m like, what?
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yeah, but I appreciate the fact that she understands the gravity of how the depths of Amy’s
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yes. Made a mistake.
Emily Edwards (she/her): sociopathy. And
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Mm-hmm.
Emily Edwards (she/her): she’s sort of the audience stand in for being like, and you’re still going to stay with her. Like you have to have this person. They made the choice to put on screen an audience who’s like, she’s a sociopath. You’re both terrible people. why would you do this? And he
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
What twins?
Emily Edwards (she/her): just verbalizes like, no, I have to stay with her. And it’s someone who gets to walk away, which his sister doesn’t get to do. His sister is like, I’m going to be your sister forever. I love you, even though you’re staying with this awful woman. But the detective gets to be like, I’m done with this story and walks away at
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Hm. Yep.
Emily Edwards (she/her): around the same time that you’re done with this movie and you get to be like, thank God I get to go take a shower and walk away from it. Exactly. You’re like, thank God.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
They’re like me too, girl. It’s like, I am out of here, girl. I’m with you. I never want to see these people again. I don’t want to watch them raise their toddler on social media. Talk about a toddler you’re gonna be asking you to
Emily Edwards (she/her): No, like not at all.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
take
Emily Edwards (she/her): It leaves you wondering just how many of the people that like, I’m so invested in this cute couple that’s on Instagram and look at their adorable families. It really does make you wonder, like, what are you behind the scenes because no one is this
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
It’s curated. It’s all curated.
Emily Edwards (she/her): perfect.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
It’s all curated. I I think I think if you’re happy you don’t need to prove it.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Mm-hmm. can’t thank you enough for choosing this book because it was such a bomb in the industry. It really upended the way that we were, the thriller world and the way we were talking about, I support women’s rights, but also women’s wrongs. It’s such an explosive
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Well I can’t believe this
Emily Edwards (she/her): thing that happened.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I can’t believe this book was still available. ‘Cause I know we tossed around memento.
Emily Edwards (she/her): I know.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I know we tossed around memento
Emily Edwards (she/her): Yes.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
to do, which is another just fantastic film and you know, but but you know, for for what for like for w what I write, I think Gone Girl was definitely the just you know, it it roots in the the duality of the good versus evil and how it’s it’s in everybody.
Emily Edwards (she/her): How can everybody keep in touch with you, your work and the books that you’ve got coming out?
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
well, my next book called The Way You Lie comes out in April April thirteenth, twenty twenty seven. And that is my twistiest one yet. So make sure you grab that one because I normally have like a good twist and a great twist, but this one has like three great ones. one’s like a third of the way through, one’s about two thirds of the way through, and then one is at is like literally on the last page. Like it’s you know, when you think you know, you don’t. So that’s super fun. It can be found
Emily Edwards (she/her): So good.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
on Instagram at Jamie Lynn Hendrix Author. also on Thread at Jamie Lynn Hendrix Author and on TikTok, which, you know, I try, but I’m not on there often. But that’s at Author JLH and Twitter, which I’m not on really at all anymore, Author JLH. but yeah, like, you know, DM me on on Instagram. I like to come on book clubs and I do it all the time. If you Have a book club and you just want me to send you book plates, you know, I can do that too. I love interacting with my readers, so I’m around all the time. I’m very accessible. come ask me anything, invite me anywhere. And I’m going on tour next year for
Emily Edwards (she/her): and fall.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Ulai. So I believe
Emily Edwards (she/her): Awesome.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I believe where I’m going. So again, if you want to see me, come and tell me. If you want me to move something around or add something, I’m still in the planning stages. my release. party is on April 12th at Book and Bottle in St. Petersburg, Florida. And then April 13th is my release day. That will be at Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. And then for my plan, those two are
Emily Edwards (she/her): Awesome.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
planned. Those two are done. And then my plan is to be in Providence April 14th, DC April 15th, and Charlotte April 16th. And then I get next week at Florida.
Emily Edwards (she/her): you’re Johnny Cashinate. You’re going everywhere.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
yeah, but then I got Thriller Fest the next week in New York City. And then the week after that, I’m going to Houston, Chicago, Wisconsin, and LA.
Emily Edwards (she/her): Damn, well, I’ll be coming to see you in LA. So that’ll be fantastic.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I’m red eyeing back. I’m not even staying in LA. I’m taking the red eye back and I’m sleeping for a week.
Emily Edwards (she/her): my god, yeah you will.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Yeah, that’s that’s a lot for me. That’s a lot for me. But
Emily Edwards (she/her): That’s a lot.
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I you know, I could I could always replace or add a stop if somebody really wants to see me, come and tell me. You know, I’d love to meet people.
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