The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

How Bestselling Author Emma Grey Writes

March 6

49 mins

Episode Description

Bestselling and award-winning author, Emma Grey, spoke with us about the long path to publication, the catharsis of writing through grief, and her latest unexpected love story, START AT THE END.

Emma Grey is the award-winning author of seven books, including the USA Today and international bestsellers, The Last Love Note and Pictures of You. Her newest book, Start at the End, publishing April 7, 2026, is described as a “...sliding-doors novel … that explores second chances and unwritten endings.”

Robinne Lee, author of The Idea of You wrote, "Emma Grey is a talented, beautiful writer, full of wit and wisdom and brilliant observations.” Sarah Damoff, author of The Bright Years called the book “... a tour de force of honest humanity.”

Emma’s book Pictures of You won the gold medal in the American Independent Publisher Book Awards. Along with The Last Love Note, it received a starred review from the American Library Association. Both books were selected for two major American book clubs, including the Book of the Month and the Target Book Clubs.

Her novels have attracted multiple foreign translations deals, a TV option, and Emma co-wrote a stage musical based on one of her teenage novels, which was selected for Broadway Unplugged in Sydney and by the Homegrown Initiative in Melbourne.

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In this file Emma Grey, Milena and I discussed:

Why writers choose to have homework all the time

Visiting Prince Edward Island to speak about Anne of Green Gables

Why every reader takes away a unique thing from your writing

How her audience feeds into the writing of each new book

Striving for 100 rejections a year to become more resilient

The #writingvanlife

And a lot more!

Show Notes:

emmagrey.com.au