Can you really write whole books in 10 minutes at a time? Absolutely. Also discussed: leaving room for surprise (and mess!), on being reluctant to do harm to your characters, and the magic of just taking a walk.

Ashton Lattimore is an award-winning author, journalist, and former lawyer. Her debut novel, All We Were Promised, was a Book of the Month Club pick, a Washington Post and NPR Best Book of 2024, and one of People magazine’s Best New Books for April 2024. Lattimore also received the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Prism, The Preamble, Slate, CNN, Essence, and elsewhere. She’s a native of New Jersey, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Runner is her most recent novel.

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