Rebecca Serle: Sure. We should just live here full time." Rebecca Serle: We're all works In progress guys. The kind of answers that it can be a glib cocktail conversation, or it can be like, "No really.". Rebecca Serle: Yeah, I was thinking about that like, "Is this true?" Cause she had blurbed the book. And I read an interview with you where you said that your advice to young writers is to immerse yourself in the industry that you want to be in. It's been really nice. It's possible. Of course everything is sort of subjective to the moment that you're in. Nothing is happening in this and I'm gonna need to cut it in half.". It takes me time. Sarah Enni: That's so interesting. Foundry Literary and Media who represent some of the world's best writers. Rebecca Serle: It really has been and it's a period I'm still in the midst of. And I would imagine, I mean who knows the future, but I would imagine quite a few more will be about it as well. to see possibly who they are and full class lists found from school records and public sources. She received her MFA from the New School in NYC. Rebecca Serle: It's been really fun too. So it makes sense that you would reach out and grab onto them because you're the only two people in the center of a tornado. What was it like to see it start to work and for people to get behind it. ", Sarah Enni: Okay, that's fascinating on just so many levels. Sarah Enni: And the only two people that can really relate to this experience. I sold another television show. What books are on your summer reading list this year? So what precipitated the final move and what are you doing besides book writing at this time? You wrote the book, you feel like this concept could work as a TV show, "I know it cause I want to see it." So I found that very helpful to read scripts and to read them at different stages. Sarah Enni: What do you think it is that made you so sure? Rebecca Serle: So I write the pilot and that takes me about nine months. When You Were Mine: The Novel That Inspired the Movie Rosaline It doesn't work for the career that I want or the lifestyle that I have. Sarah Enni: I love that. What was it like to learn all the ins-and-outs? I was there for twelve-and-a-half years. Genealogy Rebecca Serle: I thought I would move to New York. But my parents were and are open-minded, liberal, and encouraging of anything that made me read. Hayley Hershman produces First Draft and today's episode was produced and sound designed by Callie Wright. It was also chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club pick. Sarah Enni: Welcome to First Draft with me, Sarah Enni. And of course, I think about it now and I'm like, "I had so little time. Serle received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The New School. And so interesting to see who this character would have chosen and all that stuff. We will never sell your information. Because unless something is really sparking in you, it's not gonna spark in anybody else. And I feel a little tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny speck proud of that. Very quickly started working on the TV show, the pilot. Rebecca loves shiny hair, coffee, yoga, and pretending to be British. Love doesn't require a future., Sometimesthe hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them., How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?. She is the author of several YA novels, including Famous in Love, which she recently co-developed into a television series. And no one had ever made clear to me cause I think in college, so much of being an English major was about studying books of the past. It's too hard today and I'm gonna take a break." It's a very sort of magical, curious thing about writing, to me. So I did. And then I got punched in the street by a homeless man. Let's talk about, forgive me, I was trying to put them in order and it was hard. Oh, that's so interesting. Time's gonna pass anyway. That's so sort of doing a trial run of the life that you're now fully in. Make a monthly or one-time donation at Paypal.me/FirstDraft. Student Success Sarah Enni: So now In Five Years is coming out, I want to know about writing that book and moving to LA and having these other opportunities. In Five Years: A Novel - Rebecca Serle And I really do think that's true about ideas too. Made more visual than you did in the past? Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine.Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name.She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles. I write very quickly. Rebecca Serle is an American author and television writer. Bella Thorne signed on really early. I'm currently working on a new novel and a new TV show. I was a creative writing and English major at USC and I love to write. And the only other person who's there with you is the other person. And we lived on the East Coast for the first ten years of my life, in Philadelphia and then Massachusetts. There are production companies and things that happen in New York. And back it all up. Life is constantly dynamic and ever evolving. I mean, you have to in film and TV, but I don't really do it for books. History Sarah Enni: So I'm fascinated by this. Was that like a big thing for you? I mean, I remember entering writing competitions when I was in elementary school. We knew we were gonna have to bring a bigger producer on board because I had never worked in TV before, let alone created a show. We brought it to a few different producers. Sarah Enni: Yeah. Sarah Enni: Was the book that you wrote previous to that, adult or young adult? That's not a bad word. Sarah Enni: So brilliant. She received her MFA from the New School in NYC. So up through undergrad and New School, where you pretty much only focusing on short stories? I would really get here and then I would just do some research on what this business is about, and where you might think that you fit in. Id love to have a meal with him. So I'll write 2000 words a day when I'm actually writing a book and my books are not that long. Nora Ephron. I wrote my first novel when I was twenty-three-years- old. Her name was Rosaline." [16], In Five Years was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Romance.[17]. So I remember breaking down the Gossip Girl pilot in terms of actual time, and then trying to map Famous in Love onto that structure. Having worked in publishing, now I had sort of the view from being at Penguin and I had the view from being at the agency and I now had some friends from going to young author drinks nights. I so love that you were so self-motivated and propelled with the Famous in Love process, especially to moving it over to TV. ( 474 ) 4.99 11.99. Rebecca Serle | Bookreporter.com You can go leave one right this minute. Like The Dinner List came out, or I finished it, let's say two-and-a-half years ago. Sarah Enni: And it'll get done. Rebecca Serle: I didn't know that it was a possibility to do it as a job. And I started writing the book at the fever pitch Kristin and Rob on Twilight. But we started spending about two months out of the year in Hawaii because my dad had quintuple bypass surgery, open heart surgery, when I was two-and-a-half. Rebecca Serle. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. And then you look them up and you see what their guidelines are and you say, "I loved this work that you represented." So I don't know the landscape as well as I did back then, but I mean I submitted daily to every tiny publication I possibly could. What was it like to have such an abrupt lifestyle change? So it was a combination of a lot of very interesting things. Rebecca Serle: Yes, very, very, very early. Rebecca Serle: So The Dinner List is about, it's the answer to the question, "If you could have dinner with any five people living or dead, who would they be?" It's so open and it's so dynamic and there's so many different roles that you might be surprised at where you find you fit. Im also OBSESSED with Adelle Waldmans The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Read it. What is the instinct here?" Author of One Italian Summer (out 3/1/22), In Five Years, The Dinner List, Famous in Love series I don't think that I, again, I didn't realize. And it also became increasingly more difficult for me to ignore the fact that the quality of life in LA is really nice. I didn't know who did that, but it wasn't me. At the time we're recording this, I haven't done anything, so I'm very excited to get to discuss it. Episode notes. Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post. Romance Teen with a girl and she falls in love with her child hood best friend, after not talking to each other for a v long time [s]. Rebecca Serle - Audio Books, Best Sellers, Author Bio Thank you. Sarah Enni: Yeah. Check Full Reputation Profile They're an incredible, incredible agency now. If it's not hard something is not quite right. That was the one thing I was very clear on is that New York was where I was meant to be. : If you look back over the course of one year, you may feel like you don't really accomplish anything. Sarah Enni: Oh, interesting. by Rebecca Serle. Science It can even be short and sweet. Or do you see it as like, "Oh!" I was born in Philadelphia, which is where my mom's from, my dad was a lifelong New Yorker. So a woman shows up to her 30th birthday dinner and it's that dinner and Audrey Hepburn is at the table. I feel like it's such rarefied air to get to be doing it and I'm just tremendously grateful. I was taking these weeks off or giving myself like, "Oh it's too hard. There's so many people here who work in the business or work tangentially in the business. I mean, I guess the same way we teach ourselves how to write books, right? The novel has been widely praised for its . Sarah Enni: Which is great. And then we got picked up in the spring of 2015 and we shot the pilot December of 2015. Rebecca Serle: Yes, and then you have the experience you need. Los Angeles History Rebecca Serle: That's so nice. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick "In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won't forget." Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Daya striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer . Nobody really understood how to handle it, and what I should or should not be empowered to do. If you know, especially going forward, that that's a format that you really want to be in, it's while you're in school. And I'm working on my first adult novel, The Dinner List. Rebecca Serle: Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was really delightful. Sarah Enni: Oh, well, thank you for giving me so much time. Really, at that time - at that time, I mean oh my God I'm so old - but it was, it was like thirteen years ago. Grateful. I really try to cultivate that in myself too, and not fall into the trap of talking endlessly about how hard it is, because it's just gonna make it harder. I sold it in September, October, 2010. It got me thinking about the women our mothers are before we meet them. And I was able to use the time to figure out how to write a book. It's the same nightDecember 15but 2025, five years in the future. So I didn't know that I could make money doing it. Maybe she did ballet? Did you always know you wanted to co-executive produce as well? I miss her. Right? fiction contemporary magical realism emotional reflective sad medium-paced. It's just what it is. Or that that's where this like passion was gonna take you. And I loved when I talked to Jenny Han about that. Sarah Enni: Yeah, yeah. So they don't push reading or mathematics necessarily onto the child. I want to be present where I am in my life, not always where Im going. In both packaging it and then also subsequently selling the show. Not only just going to New School and learning about it, but then working at a publisher and an agency. The publishing industry never sleeps, except kinda-sorta in the week around Christmas. Rebecca Serle: Oh, absolutely. Rebecca A Serle, 38 - New York, NY - Reputation & Contact Details Like give a busy person something to do and it'll get done. All rights reserved.Information at BookBrowse.com is published with the permission of the copyright holder or their agent. It was for shorter periods of time. And then I'm gonna start adapting The Dinner List. I don't know. And I'm just very excited for people to read it. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles. And I remember finding out that they were dating in real life during Season One before a Pacey and Joey got together. It's paying attention, seeing where the energy is, seeing what's working, seeing what's moving then seeing what's lighting you up too. It was very sweet and also a bit sad, she said. But I'll be honest, I don't really know how I feel about it moving [forward]. ", I never think about my work in another medium. Life is so funny, but you have this idea for a book that would require that. It is first and foremost a labor of love. Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives in Los Angeles. And I don't consider that to be cheap and I don't consider that me selling out. I really do. So that was sort of how that came about. LAPL Blog Interview With an Author: Rebecca Serle Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Rebecca Serle is a full-time writer, which means she gets to wear pajamas to work. [12], It received positive reviews from Kirkus,[8] Seattle Book Review,[13] Booklist,[14] Library Journal,[15] and Publishers Weekly. And then what was fascinating to me about the Famous in Love conceit is the like mind bendy, like you're saying, almost fan fiction-y thing of, "Well they're teenagers who were being asked to portray teenage dumb." Rebecca Serle TV Profile - Metacritic In some ways, I always find it comforting when I go back and read something I wrote a few years ago and I'm like, "Oh, I still like this. Special Collections I really appreciate it. And it's a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet from Roslyn's perspective, Romeo's ex. I miss her voice. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. An amazing resource." The first one that you wrote in school. So yes, even forget the theme, even the same idea, you can do over, and over, and over again and it could be new and interesting. Actually this is the first time. And I'll draft a book in about three months. Do you have people in your corner that are helping you tackle all the things you want to do? So my writing process with books is that I tend to just, not so much get in a hole, but I really believe in staying in step with a book. And it's really true. Someone who Romeo loved very much. How much is in our control and how much is gonna happen regardless of what we do. Always. I think there's a tremendous amount to be gained from starting in a writer's room, and starting at an assistant level, and seeing how it works and working your way up. I came up with the idea for When You Were Mine and I was thrilled, I thought, "Oh my God! Like, "It's enough, I need to go.". So When You Were Mine was first. She loves Nancy Meyers films, bathrobes, and giving unsolicited relationship advice. And very quickly after, I figured out what a book was and how to read it. I got to do a lot of different things and work for a lot of different agents and kind of pitch-hit wherever it was needed. Thank you Tiny Tim that's incredible. I'm really excited to ask you a ton of questions about all your work. So it was five years after I'd sold my first book. Think about what you will accomplish in five years, it's a tremendous amount. Or, "My father who didn't get to meet my husband." And I had also grown up on WB TV. I didn't know what that would look like. There's really something very exciting about getting to help them, like usher that into the world. Search String: Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives in New York and Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the New School in NYC. Yes, absolutely. This profile was gathered from multiple public and (Although of course, that would be at her discretion). There are moments in life if youre a writer where the moment is just shrieking at you to pay attention. And then at the point that we did Season One, it was about for eight months. Sarah Enni: How did this idea come to you? It's much better for me to focus on one thing, complete it, and then move on to another! I feel even in college it was very insulated. Her novel In Five Years was a New York Times best seller, and her Famous in Love series was adapted into a young adult television series on Freeform . So I wrote one. First Draft participates in affiliate programs. Truly, Madly, Famously (Famous in Love 2) 05-Nov-2015. This is crazy. Cause time's gonna pass anyway. I would get my masters. Determined to ignore this odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. Atria, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-982137-44-1", "Children's Book Review: Famous in Love by Rebecca Serle. Rebecca Serle: Every one of my books has been about that. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. There's some element of that. Follow her on Twitter @RebeccaASerle and Instagram @Rebecca_ Serle, and follow me on both @SarahEnni (Twitter and Instagram) and the show @FirstDraftPod (Twitter and Instagram). He died when I was two years old and I never really got to know him but I have always felt him so strongly over the course of my life. Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine.Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name.She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles. I think many women can relate to those twenty-something best friendships that change over timeand how painful that change can be. We did ten episodes, so at the period that I was back and forth between New York and LA, that period was about four years. I think there's this idea that in order to be a true artist you need to push aside any of the business area of it, and I've just never subscribed to that. Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives in Los Angeles. I revise my statement. I love that you had that idea and kind of dove in. Despite the fact that I took a very unorthodox path into TV through books. Less so with books, with TV stuff just takes a long time. Like, "Well what about this?". As such, it is likely a brief snapshot in time. Its no ones fault, but it hurts. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Guaranteed, Reader-Approved Summer Page-Turners by Genre, Famous in Love (Famous in Love #1) (ARC) by Rebecca Serle - Starting October 3rd 2014, SOLVED. I'm very excited about this book. And submit to them. She was like, "It means publishing." And if you're really methodical about it, you can get way more done than you even think. Rebecca Serle - Amazon.co.uk Sarah Enni: Okay. LAPL Writes And I think back again to what we were talking about earlier, you just kind of have to go with that gut feeling. So yeah, it really did feel like coming home. Cause that's what I realized. And I don't think I would have been able to move had I not written a book here. And I will not pretend that I came up with this, but I don't know who did, so bear with me. Rebecca Serle: Yes. She received her MFA from the New School in NYC. And I say to them like, "There will come a point in which you're not." I'm REALLY looking forward to Emma Straub's latest and RODHAM, of course! And by the way, let me just stop now to say this is a philosophy on writing that I very much believe in. And I also found that my life started to move here, in a way that I'd always used to move in New York. So it truly remains the most delightful experience I have ever had writing two books. " [T]here was someone before Juliet ever came into the picture. She's not reading." Contracts and there's just so many more moving parts than there are in books. It seems like it's been a period of maybe reorganization of your life. And I always try to keep that in mind when I think about my career and all the things I still want to do. So yeah, I think those jobs allow you to see the spectrum of different careers and see what you really jive with. It's hard. And I literally like found the a hundred pages on my computer and sent them to my agent and said, "What do you think about this?". I'll be very honest in saying I'm not at a point where I can run a show. It's the same nightDecember 15but 2025, five years in the future. Or did you ever Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand-born screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and journalist. Sarah Enni: Yeah. Rebecca Serle: The Kristin and Rob thing was a very interesting example because, well number one, it was just so massive. I didn't really understand that it would mean that I had to come to LA, although I probably should have. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. I mean, I moved to New York and I didn't really know what an agent was. And then I think when you feel you have something that you're ready to publish, looking in the backs of books that you think are comps and seeing who represents them. She co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her YA series, Famous in Love. It's another sort of universal question, and it's the answer to the question, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" Rebecca Serle: Yeah. It was different. Rebecca Serle I wanted to, not necessarily make books, but I knew that I wanted to write. Interview With an Author: Rebecca Serle e-Media They're a moment in time. Rebecca Serle is 38 years old today because Rebecca's birthday is on 01/02/1985. To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998 or send an email to mailbag @ firstdraftpod dot com! Leaving a rating on iTunes only takes a couple of minutes and it's a manipulation of the mysterious Apple algorithm, who knows what's at work there, but it definitely helps get the show out there in front of new listeners and I very much appreciate that. So if I have an idea for something, I do want to try to bring it forth as quickly as I possibly can. She went to the University of Southern California, then got her MFA from the New School in NYC. Rebecca Serle: I see that happen a lot honestly. So I really think that proximity is paramount if you can get get in that city. In five years by Rebecca Serle, 2020, Quercus edition, in English I was so thrilled. I wrote it here at the point in which I was still living in New York, but I was out here for work in the fall of last year. I didn't know I could make it my life, but I knew I wanted to write stories and I wanted people to read them. Rebecca Serle: Right. That means there's no network or shadowy suits that make it possible. Rebecca Serle | ReadingGroupGuides.com And I also feel it is better to write, and to not write under pressure, or to write for a deadline. So it's nice to visit it at different eras. I'm so excited you could come over. It's like giving your child away. Also, what a gift to find a hundred pages of something that you're like, "I still like this. And it's all about like, break it down into what you need to get done on a certain day. A big, delicious lunch with my friends at one of our favorite cafes like Rucola or East One in Brooklyn. Rebecca Serle - Wikipedia [19] The sequel received a positive review from Booklist. And so I felt like something very interesting is happening. Rebecca Serle: There's my call to action, "Just do the work!". Welcome back. I love both mediums but I'm a terrible multitasker. But publishing's full of people. So it was a little bit of everything. What were you thinking was gonna happen? So that works for me. The theme music is by Dan Bailey and the logo was designed by Collin Keith. And it's like, "Well, that's actually not the kind of person I want to be." I'm about to start adapting myself. And I would really try to protect that process as much as you can. That's so, so interesting. It's never taken you longer than nine months to write a book? But again, a lot of it is really instinct. Rebecca Serle is 38 years old today because Rebecca's birthday is on 01/02/1985. They were the first things I ever had published too, in tiny, tiny, small literary journals. By using our site, you agree to our use of cookies. I went and did journalism as a major because I was like, "Oh, well that's feasible.". Very early for me. Verified. Many. Like, "Oh, you do this and then you do this." That 90 day thing I was telling you about, it's like, "I'm gonna budget for 80K and just really try to make it happen. And it was like, "Well it's gonna make it ten times harder.". Oh that's so, I love that. Rebecca Serle: That's actually a good point. I remember when we used to drive from Massachusetts to Philadelphia to visit our extended family, once we moved to Massachusetts. Rebecca Serle: I love that. Rebecca Serle: I think that I sort of honed my process more. In the span of six months I had an air conditioning thing fall on me and got an eye infection from like the drip of it. I had spent a large period of my very young years being very isolated. You got to follow it wherever it leads and you got to keep trusting it. Sarah Enni: Right. It's always like, "What is my stomach telling me to do? (She likes New York much more than LA, but dont tell anyone that.) What do you think it was that was propelling you through this process when you were carving out your own path so fearlessly?
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