PAPERBACKS of Right Back Where We Started From!

Here I am opening the box of paperbacks of my novel, Right Back Where We Started From! They're coming out August 16!

I'm almost more excited about the paperback than I was about the hardback. (I personally prefer them.) You can pre-order here: https://t.co/zBIvxYteg3 pic.twitter.com/4kIbFzswNN

— Joy Lanzendorfer (@JoyLanzendorfer) August 4, 2022

In some ways, this was more exciting than opening the box of hardbacks. I love paperback books.

Here I am with my hair in my face, opening the box:

I just had to put this music to my opening the box of paperbacks of my novel, Right Back Where We Started From (coming next week!). pic.twitter.com/grnXmmk4T7

— Joy Lanzendorfer (@JoyLanzendorfer) August 8, 2022

You can order the paperback here!

More about the novel.

I had the pleasure to speak to Mandy Jackson-Beverly on The Bookshop Podcast about my novel, Right Back Where We Started From. Listen Here.

I was interviewed by the fabulous Frances Badalamenti in The Rumpus!

We talked about greed, ambition, and the “unlikable” female characters in my novel Right Back Where We Started From.

Read the interview here.

Today is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.

And in honor of that anniversary, I want to show you my office chair.

Yes. I need a new office chair.

I show you this because it illustrates the reality of being a writer. Most of my time is spent sitting in a chair typing. So much time, in fact, that I wore away the plastic coating on the seat.

Putting in zillions of hours focusing on craft is how this job works, at least for me. And it has worked out okay, even though sometimes there are setbacks, like it taking nine years for my first novel to make it into the world.

But I’m grateful it did.

Happy birthday, old friend.

Learn more about RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM here.

Or buy it!

There’s also an audiobook!

The paperback will be out in late August, so stay tuned for that.

I was on the I’m A Writer But… podcast! I had a great time talking about RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM, ambition, and my crazy path to publication.

Listen Here

I read an excerpt of my novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM, today on KALW’s New Arrivals Podcast. Listen here!

I was interviewed about RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM on C. P. Lesley’s Blog. She asked a lot of in-depth questions about the plot, so you can get my inside take on the characters. Read it here.

My book has a book trailer! MARCIA made it for me! She is the best!

The Petaluma Argus-Courier interviewed me about Right Back Where We Started From! Check out: Longtime Petaluma journalist debuts first novel

I have a short story in Raritan. It’s called The More You Know, and it’s about a ghost who’s also a valley girl. Excerpt:

Being a ghost is so bogus. Like, what is a ghost even able to do, you know? So I can flicker a light bulb. So what? So can, like, a loose wire. Most of the time when I do that, people think, “Whoa, something is wrong with the lamp.” Mega lame. Like, the major thing I can do cor-porally is the same as some wires.

Read it here!