LP: I listened to an interview that you did and heard that this book came out of a funny email you sent after a botched first date. I wrote Lemoncholy to appeal to someone who is willing to try something… different. People know what they like, what scratches their itch, so to speak, and that’s great.

I didn’t write Lemoncholy to give people more of the same, though, believe me, there’s nothing wrong with that. If you ask me, it’s simply a book about love, pure and simple, and the bringing together of a most unusual family-against the odds and across time.Īs for my intended audience, the word unconventional comes to mind. And it’s not fantasy, though it contains time travel. It’s not a thriller, either, though I’ve created some scenes that I hope get your heart racing. It’s not a mystery, not really, though I often call it that for the sake of convenience. Scott Wilbanks: This is one of those tricky novels that’s hard to pin down because it’s a bit of a grab bag that bounces around from genre to genre.

Lori Puma: Tell me about your The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster and the people you most want to read it. In this interview with Scott Wilbanks, author of the cross-genre novel The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, we learn what it really takes to find a literary agent, get a glimpse behind-the-scenes of a book launch at an independent publisher, and hear the unexpected (and hilarious) tale of how a novel was born from a botched first date.

The lemoncholy life of annie aster