Lori Duff's journey began with strong academic success, which led her parents to steer her towards law school. Initially focused solely on her legal career, Lori truly discovered her love for creative writing after a challenging election loss in 2012. This moment of introspection prompted her to start blogging, humorously chronicling her husband's antics, which then evolved into a more public writing career. Lori is a lawyer, a judge, and an award winning writer. She's a past president of the Georgia Council for Municipal Court Judges, and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. A two time winner of the Georgia Bar Journal's Annual Fiction Competition, she also won the Forward Indies Gold Medal for Humor, and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Annual Column Contest, and many other awards for her work. Her new novel, Devil's Defense, is a finalist in the American Book Fest Best Book Awards in General Fiction and Thriller Adventure categories and her novella, Broken Things, won the Georgia Independent Author of the Year Award for Literary Fiction.

What You Will Hear in This Episode:

01:46 Lori's Background

04:24 Journey to Writing

05:34 Balancing Law and Writing

15:20 Creative Inspirations

18:05 Character Development

30:46 Upcoming Projects

Quotes

“People are complicated. Nobody thinks they're the bad guy.”

“Don't let anyone else tell you no. There's enough people telling you no.”

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