Writers Who Read
2 August 2020
Lost and Wanted
by Nell Freudenberger
Author/Publisher Intent
Stylistic Choices
Structure, Pacing
Climax - what changed?
Scene sleuthing
Lost and Wanted - Nell Freudenberger
- Marketing: Friendship Fiction, Ghost Fiction
- Genre: Realistic Modern-Day Arch-Plot Long-Form
- Word count: 112,242
- Print Pages: 316
- Reading Level: 7th grade
- POV: Helen
- Publish date: April 2, 2019
- Publisher: Vintage
- Sold By: Random House (mass market)
- Audio book narrated by: Narrated By: Ann Marie Lee
- Nell Freudenberger
- The IT Girl of 2003 - bidding war for 1st novel, The Dissident
- She ended up declining a $500,000 two-book deal for $100,000 from Ecco Press.
- - - Pantster - -
- Lost and Wanted -- sold in 2013
- Threw away entire draft (protagonist was a writer)
- Turned Helen into a Physicist after 2+ years of research
- Finished 2018; Published in 2019
- "It's always worked better when an idea seems like something that I couldn't do." - Freudenberger on writing as a physicist
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Writers Who Read: Coming Up
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October 4: The Testaments (2019) - Margaret Atwood
November 1: Weather (2020) - Jenny Offill
December 6: The Nickel Boys (2019) - Colson Whitehead
