Summary: <p>Young Adult Author Lauren James joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss having a supportive family, thinking every year this will be the year she has to get a real job, the ten year gap year, when your entire America publishing team gets fired, publishing three books during the pandemic, the one course she wish she'd taken, trusting your instincts, and the value in an editor who also teaches as you go.</p> <p>Lauren James is the twice Carnegie-nominated British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. She is a RLF Royal Fellow, freelance editor and screenwriter.</p> <p>Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and on the board of the Authors & Illustrators Sustainability Working Group through the Society of Authors.</p> <p>Lauren: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PYldnl6N29QPKlU-3WEWWjODygED6TV2hvCIw9_Uh00/edit?usp=sharing"><u>Query</u></a> | <a href="https://laurenejames.co.uk/"><u>Website</u></a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/lauren_e_james"><u>Twitter</u></a> | <a href="https://amzn.to/3EalAum"><u>Amazon</u></a> | <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1209/9780062660268"><u>Bookshop</u></a> | <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781510710214?aff=72724"><u>IndieBound</u></a> | <a href="https://libro.fm/referral?isbn=%209780062841728&rf_code=lfm164099"><u>Libro FM</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://sarahnicolas.com/queries-qualms-quirks/"><u>QQQ Home Base</u></a> |<a href="https://www.patreon.com/pubtalklive"> <u>Support on Patreon</u></a></p> <p>If links aren't clickable, find them here: https://bit.ly/qqqlj</p> <p>This page includes affiliate links. Please use them if you’d like to support the show.</p>
