Sarah asked Lisa Genova:

What other areas are you considering for future books? And did you find piano lessons challenging? I keep trying!

Lisa Genova My next book will be about memory--my first nonfiction title. My next novel will be about a woman with bipolar disorder. Beyond that, I don't know, but I trust that life lead me there.

The piano lessons! I'd taken lessons as a child and loathed everything about it. Youth IS wasted on the young! :) For the past many years now (I'm 47), I've been wanting to really learn how to play. But with three kids, books to write, books to promote, and life to live, I couldn't justify the time. When I decided to make my two main characters in EVERY NOTE PLAYED pianists, I suddenly had the perfect excuse!

I did a similar thing with INSIDE THE O'BRIENS. For years, I'd been wanting to do a 200-hour yoga teacher training. In order for me to write authentically about Katie O'Brien the yoga teacher, I HAD to do the training. Right? :)

Hmm, what do I want to learn next? :)

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