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|title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Eric Lindner
|reviewer=Jill Murphy
|summary=Jill thought that [[Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life by Eric Lindner]] was touching, illumoinating illuminating and uplifting. She was delighted when the author popped in to chat to us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>1442220597</amazonus>
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Jill thought that [[Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life by Eric Lindner]] was touching, illumoinating illuminating and uplifting. She was delighted when the author popped in to chat to us.
* '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''
EL: My wife and our two closest friends/neighbors heard a few of my stories over dinner one evening in 2010, and urged me to put pen to paper.
But feeling I needed a ''cold, hard, objective, professional opinion,'' I banged out two draft chapters, and sent them to Alexandra Shelley - who did far more than just ''editing'' the acclaimed [[The Help by Kathryn Stockett|The Help]] - she played a big role in the novel's entire architecture and then found an agent for debut author Kathyrn Stockett – for advice. Alexandra is lovely, but also legendarily parsimonious in her praise. ''This mightjust work,'' she said. For her, that was gushing praise, or at least enough encouragement to get me to commit...
* '''BB: And how did you find the process of writing it?'''
* '''BB: What would be your desert island book? (You can only pick one, mind!)'''
EL: if STRANDED on a desert island, then as G.K, . Chesterton's answer to this question is (not surprisingly) far more brilliant and clever than my own:
''Why, A Practical Guide to Shipbuilding, of course.''