I Published 5 Books in 2 Years: Catching Up With Mazey Eddings
In March 2022, managing editor Moriah Richard held a roundtable with three debut authors in our debut authors episode—one of those authors was Mazey Eddings.
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Now, Eddings is set to publish Late Bloomer, her fifth book in two years; an impressive feat for any author! Here, editor-in-chief Amy Jones and managing editor Moriah Richard catch up with Eddings two years into her publishing career to discuss how her writing has changed, how her perspective on publishing has changed, and her advice for other authors!
From Mazey Eddings:
“I found my sense of community in the romance community and Bookstagram, and I just really leaned into this fun project of writing because I fell in love with it.”
“More and more, life feels a little bit isolating. We’re more connected than ever with social media, but in so many ways—and especially since COVID—there’s been a huge disconnect, or what we view friendship and community as has shifted in a lot of ways. I like to reflect that idea of ‘You can find and form friendships at any point in your life, even when you feel like you’re at your lowest or your worst or your messiest.’ That’s when you find the purest relationships.”
“Embrace the joy of writing as hard as you can, because it will leave you at times—especially when you start developing a financial relationship with your creative work. It really shifts the purity of creation and art to where you start having this internal conversation about monetizing art and people consuming it. It becomes sticky and different, so hold on to your love of it as much as possible, and cherish that, honor that, enjoy that as much as you can. That’s the thing to protect and nurture more than anything else.”