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#16 Bestseller Lizzy Dent talks about her transition from writing as "an expensive hobby" to giving up her dayjob

December 15, 2022 Caroline Leech Season 1 Episode 16
Authors & Audiences
#16 Bestseller Lizzy Dent talks about her transition from writing as "an expensive hobby" to giving up her dayjob
Show Notes

Lizzy Dent is a bestselling women's fiction author.  Her first novel for women – The Summer Job -  came out in 2021 and her second , The Set Up, came out this year, in 2022. Before her move into adult fiction , Lizzy wrote a three Young Adult novels, under her real name, Rebecca Denton, all set in and around the music scene, called This Beats Perfect, A Secret Beat and The Punk Factor.  Lizzy is a New Zealander, but she spent many years working in London, and these days lives in Austria with her family. Before she was an author, she worked in television, creating content for various companies like MTV, the BBC, Cartoon Network and Channel 4.

In this episode Lizzy talks to host, Caroline Leech, about the highs and lows of her publication journey and about how she sets goals to help her achieve what she wants to achieve.

To find out more about Lizzy, visit her website, or follow her on Instagram.

To buy her latest book, The Set Up, or any of her other books, please consider buying it from from Bookshop.org - as an affiliate, Authors & Audiences will receive a small fee from any purchase using this link, which will go towards the costs of keeping the podcast running. Many thanks.

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