People came via Zoom, which included people who wouldn’t have been able to come otherwise if they don’t live in NYC. GOULD: It's been really weird and bad but also good. SCRIBD: How are you doing and what has it been like to promote the book virtually? Now would be a great time for that to happen! Just putting it out there to the universe. It would be cool to do that at some point. GOULD: I’ve never had a book on a bestseller list. SCRIBD: What’s one first you haven’t had yet, that you’d like to have? We would’ve been able to publish way faster if we had each gone to the 10 richest people we knew to get $500 each. I thought “oh, we’ll be in business and make money and put that back into the business.” In retrospect, if I start another business I would shake every tree before starting. GOULD: The big one is that we should’ve started with more start-up capital. SCRIBD: You’re also known for championing women writers, as noted by your work with Emily Books - any lessons from running your own business for the first time? I felt that I could exist a lot more easily in New York than in the middle of Ohio. I had been going to Kenyon College - nobody who I was hanging out there, save for a few very treasured friends, no one ever got my jokes and I had to apologize for my humor. I realized pretty quickly I wasn’t going back to the college I was going to and was going to try to figure out a way to finish college in NYC. I was trying to do a junior year abroad but in NY. GOULD: I moved to NY when I was 19 and I moved here the same time the protag of Perfect Tunes did - May 2001. SCRIBD: Tell us about the first time you fell in love with New York. I have a ton of respect for people who write intense genre fiction. I remember getting the check and being like “I got paid to write words!” It was really fun. I got a side gig writing the back cover copy of serial romance novels. GOULD: It was when I was in my early 20s working in book publishing at a pub house through an awesome friend who also worked in publishing (at Harlequin). SCRIBD: Tell us about the first time you got paid to write something. This is the only award I won, aside from one for being most improved on my swim team. GOULD: My class did a writing anthology when I was 8 years old and I won an award that provided a taste of the glamour of publication. SCRIBD: Tell us about the first time you knew you wanted to be a writer.
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