A Writer's Odyssey: Lexy's Path from Legal Ventures to Literary Adventures

About this episode

Host Edith interviews fiction author Lexy about her transition from law to writing and her cross-genre book series.

Host Edith welcomes fiction author Lexy, a retiring or recovering lawyer joining from Paris, to discuss her cross-genre romantic supernatural thriller series. Lexy explains that the first three books can be read in any order (including a legal thriller, a coming-of-age high school story, and a WWII Deep South historical romance), with storylines converging later, and that the series will span eight books. They focus on book five, released in October, which tells the villains’ backstory through an eternal-mates couple tasked with keeping reality functioning, drawing on comparative religion, mythology, metaphysics, biology, and themes of consciousness. Lexy shares her varied career path (modeling, acting, music, science, law, startups, 23andMe), discusses neuroscience sparked by medical experience, critiques traditional publishing gatekeeping, and advocates self-publishing, comic cons, and clear goals for writers. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 00:40 Series Genres and Structure 02:01 Book Five Overview 03:33 Metaphysics and Consciousness 05:54 From Arts to Law 08:59 Law School Stress Stories 13:48 Neuroscience and Serotonin Crisis 17:36 Raising Kids and Family Editing 20:41 Forces…

People in this episode

Host: Edith

Guest: Lexy

Topics covered

• cross-genre fiction
• self-publishing
• neuroscience
• legal thriller
• romantic supernatural thriller
• publishing industry

Keywords

• fiction author
• legal ventures
• supernatural thriller
• self-publishing
• comic cons
• publishing gatekeeping
• metaphysics
• consciousness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 23andMe

Books & works: A Writer's Odyssey, book five

Places: Paris

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