Layne chats with author Margarita Montimore about her new novel Acts of Violet, writing stories based on your personal obsessions rather than what’s popular, and success comes to those who stay stubborn as hell.

Pick up your copy of Acts of Violet from Bookshop.org or your favorite local indie bookstore.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Margarita’s first two books Oona Out of Order and Asleep From Day
• Macmillan Audio’s EPIC *Acts of Violet* audiobook
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Find out more about Margarita on her website, Instagram, or Twitter.

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