![]() ![]() ![]() And I knew she was a superstar, and I also am really, maybe inordinately, picky about audiobook narrators. You had already won my personal Audie for Gone Girl. Yeah, so in my mind you had already won an Audie. JW: …not that I'm bitter about it or anything, no. Is that correct? Does that sound right, by that time? At this point, because she had-I think you had already won the Audie for Gone Girl, I believe. And from my end, I was obviously fully aware of who Julia was. It was so good.” So, it was just an audiobook that came my way.ĮH: Yeah. We connected from that because I think I just reached out to you cold and was like, “I’ve got to tell you, I had the best four days in the booth with this. Which is still one of my favorite books and just extraordinary. And she gave me one of Emily's YA novels. JW: I got an offer from Kelly Gildea at Penguin Random House, who is an amazing, legendary audiobook producer, and luckily cast me in a lot. MH: So how did your relationship start? If you can walk us back through your origin story of how you two came together. ![]() As I was logging on, I was trying to figure that out because we've messaged a decent amount over the course of like five years or something.ĮH: I feel like I know Julia and we also have some friends in common, and so we're also constantly like, “Should we do a writer's retreat?”ĮH: And that hasn't happened yet, but constantly there's the undercurrent of “Should we just go to the desert together for days and throw our cellphones into the sand?” MH: So, is this the first time you're meeting each other, seeing each other?ĮH: I think so face-to-face, right? I think so.ĮH: I think so too. Julia is an award-winning narrator who has voiced more than 400 audiobooks, including Emily's recent best sellers, and is herself an author too. Emily is the New York Times best-selling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation as well as several young adult novels. Margaret Hargrove: Hello, I'm Audible Editor Margaret Hargrove, and I'm so excited to be here today with Emily Henry and Julia Whelan, the author and narrator of Book Lovers. Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. ![]()
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