Novelist Jude Hopkins (Babe In The Woods): I Kept Thinking About The Dangling Modifier & The Comma Splice That I Missed
Dennis connects via telephone with his longtime friend Jude Hopkins to discuss her new novel\xa0Babe In the Woods. Here\u2019s the official blurb: After living in Los Angeles, Hadley Todd returns to her hometown in rural New York to write and be near her father. Hadley hopes to channel her recent L.A. heartbreak into a play about the last moment of a woman's innocence. But she seeks inspiration. Enter Trey Harding, a young, handsome reporter who is the perfect spark to fire up her imagination.\xa0In the interview, Jude talks about how the novel began as a riff on Scarlett O\u2019Hara in Gone With The Wind, why she decided to make her heroine Hadley more complicated than most rom-com heroines, and why she decided to not aim for the HEA or \u201chappily ever after\u201d market. Jude also talks about never giving up on her dream of having a novel published and wonders why so many people do give up on their dreams. Jude and Dennis also reminisce about times they spent together in LA; recording song parodies, going to game show tapings, trying and failing to see David Cassidy perform at the Ambassador Hotel and crafting outgoing messages for Dennis\u2019s answering machine. Other topics include: why Jude\u2019s glad her parents ignored her growing up, when she fell in love with literature, why she loves teaching, being disillusioned by Alex Trebek, meeting Tina Turner and Paul and Linda McCartney when she worked at Capital Records and that glorious moment when she first held her finished novel in her hands.\xa0https://www.judehopkinswriting.net/
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