Adele Myers
Author Interview - Adele Myers
Author of THE TOBACCO WIVES
HBL Note: You may also be interested in my interview with Adele Myers for the Best of Women’s Fiction podcast or my interview with her for the St. Louis County Library (embedded below.)
THE TOBACCO WIVES is the story of a young seamstress in 1946 North Carolina who discovers a shocking scandal that calls into question the ethics of the tobacco empire that employs her, reimagining, from a feminist angle, one of the largest corporate frauds of the twentieth century.
Author Interview - Adele Myers
Interview with Adele for the St. Louis County Library:
Author I draw inspiration from: Maya Angelou. I read I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS when I was 15 years old and it has stayed with me all these years. Her voice, her honesty. It feels like home.
Author Interview - Adele Myers | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book: I love to read in bed. I read every night before falling asleep.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: I just finished reading THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and I found Evelyn Hugo delightfully awful. I'd love to be stuck in an elevator with her, or even better, the real life starlet that the book is supposedly based on, Elizabeth Taylor.
Author Interview - Adele Myers | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: I can't pinpoint the exact moment, but reading THE LITTLE PRINCESS and giving a book report on it ranks pretty high on the list.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Combination of ebook and audiobook lately, although I prefer to buy the physical book too. So I guess "all of the above." LOL
The last book I read: I just finished RECKLESS GIRLS by Rachel Hawkins. I'm doing an event with her in April and can't wait to learn about the inspiration for the book. It's been described as "deliciously wicked gothic suspense," and it did not disappoint!
Author Interview - Adele Myers | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer: Computer first. Then I print out pages as I go and make notes in the margins and on the back of pages. I carry the pages around with me and add to them as I go about my day -- stopping in a coffee shop, on the subway, etc. It's quite messy, but comes together in the end.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Do I have to pick just one? There are so many! If I had to choose one "ride or die" friend I could count on it would be June from A HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood. She would definitely have my back.
Author Interview - Adele Myers | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: A marketer, which is my "day job."
Favorite decade in fashion history: During my research for THE TOBACCO WIVES, I grew quite fond of the 1940s.
Place I’d most like to travel: Mykonos
My signature drink: Latte from my favorite neighborhood coffee shop, Konditori Swedish Expresso
Favorite artist: Sally Mann. Her black and white photos are beautiful and haunting. Sometimes I look at her work to inspire my own.
Number one on my bucket list: Publish a novel! Now I need a new number one!
Find more from the author:
@adelejam on Instagram and Twitter
/adele.myers1 on Facebook
Author Bio: Adele Myers grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and has a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently works in advertising and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, and their rescue dog, Chipper. The Tobacco Wives is her first novel. Learn more at www.adelemyersauthor.com
