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Vanessa Lillie, LITTLE VOICES

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Vanessa Lillie, LITTLE VOICES

Vanessa: Little Voices is the story of a woman postpartum who is both struggling as a new mom, but then also her friend was murdered actually on the night she went into labor. She very much wants to return to who she was before, to be able to investigate, to be able to help find justice for her friend. It’s the story of an investigation. It’s also the story of motherhood, which is something I really wanted to read. I thought of this story and wrote a lot as a new mom. I wanted to see a new mom at the heart of a thriller, which is my favorite genre.

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Waylynn Lucas, SUNNY-SIDE UP

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Waylynn Lucas, SUNNY-SIDE UP

Waylynn: Everybody should buy this cookbook. I really wanted to create a very family-friendly, everybody-friendly cookbook. I find a lot of chef cookbooks can be very intimidating. Because they're chefs, they do a lot of fancy things and use a lot of extravagant ingredients that aren't really applicable to just your regular home cook. I wanted to do the opposite of that. I wanted this to be fun and easy and approachable and use what I've learned as a chef to give little tips and tricks. I love breakfast. I love brunch. As a pastry chef, I love brunch and breakfast so much because it’s very sweet oriented. That was my inspiration to do something more than just a regular dessert book. I wanted to push myself and get into some more savory things, but more pastries and eggs and breakfast, brunch, and have my experiences as a pastry chef go that much further in the kitchen.

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Evangeline Lilly, THE SQUICKERWONKERS

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Evangeline Lilly, THE SQUICKERWONKERS

Evangeline Lilly: I was fourteen years old when I came up with The Squickerwonkers original poem. I spent my time reading and journaling and writing. I was really into Dr. Seuss. I thought it was cool that he had this irreverent use of language. He would just makeup whatever word he wanted to. was like, I want to make up my own words. I started writing a list of imaginary words. Most of them were ridiculous and not very good. One of them on the list felt good on my tongue and really stuck. It was the word squickerwonker. At the time, I was like, what's a squickerwonker? What is that? What would that mean? What would that translate to?

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Darcy Lockman, ALL THE RAGE: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

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Darcy Lockman, ALL THE RAGE: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

Darcy: My advice would be find a gripping question. You really live with a book for the time that you're working on it. I was really immersed in this stuff. To maintain your enthusiasm and your ability to push ahead, you really have to be fascinated with what you're doing and what you're learning about. That's my advice.

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Lynda Cohen Loigman, THE WARTIME SISTERS

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Lynda Cohen Loigman, THE WARTIME SISTERS

Lynda: During World War II, of course as we all know with the Rosie the Riveter stuff, so many women worked in the defense plants. I started the researching the armory. I thought I knew what was going to happen. I thought I was going to have this character. I just wanted to know what job she would have. I was going to do a little bit of research. That was going to be it. 

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Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

Min Jin Lee: In terms of when did decide I was a writer? I think you're a writer if you're writing. I don't think you're a writer because you're publishing. In terms of how you perceive your own talent level and your skill level, that takes a really long time. It does.

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Anne Lamott, ALMOST EVERYTHING: NOTES ON HOPE

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Anne Lamott, ALMOST EVERYTHING: NOTES ON HOPE

Anne: You just don't give up. You don't give up no matter how long it takes. You don't give up just because it looks so doomed or scary out there. You keep the faith. You do the radical self-love. You take care of people. You help the poor. You help your cranky uncle. You try to eat as well as you can. You forgive yourself when you don't. Who knows what God’s got up her sleeve.

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Ingrid Fetell Lee: JOYFUL: THE SURPRISING POWER OF ORDINARY THINGS TO CREATE EXTRAORDINARY HAPPINESS

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Ingrid Fetell Lee: JOYFUL: THE SURPRISING POWER OF ORDINARY THINGS TO CREATE EXTRAORDINARY HAPPINESS

Ingrid: It began to seem like they were universally joyful. I would start to look at other cultures and see, for example, kites. Kites are everywhere. People on every continent fly kites. What is it about these certain pleasures that are so universal? I started putting pictures of them up on my wall to try to see if I could understand.

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Dylan Lauren, UNWRAP YOUR SWEET LIFE

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Dylan Lauren, UNWRAP YOUR SWEET LIFE

Dylan: I really love what I do. This is my hobby. I've always collected candy on my travels. I go into my stores. There's tons of stress that comes with it. That's with every job. My core passion is the designing and being in the stores. The managing of people is definitely hard. Working out for me is a great outlet, travelling, being in nature, which is something I think is really key. I'm starting to learn more about where I should be.

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Dan Lotti, Singer/Songwriter, Dangermuffin

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Dan Lotti, Singer/Songwriter, Dangermuffin

Dan: To be able to take it and be inspired enough to put it into a song, and then to step out on the stage and play it every night, and meet awesome people every night that reach out and say how much it means to them -- we may not be the biggest band in the world, but I feel like we’re making a difference because of that. Every little bit no matter how big or small, it helps. Obviously, the world needs that right now. I need it.

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