Maggie Marr: Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club

This week my guest is the author Maggie Marr, whose second novel Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club has recently come out. Maggie is a writer and producer for Six Mile Ridge Productions and Dahooma Productions and a former motion picture literary agent. If anyone knows Hollywood, she does and this is definitely the book to read for an insider’s look at an industry where those at the top of their game must do anything to keep from being brought down.

In Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club, Jessica, Celeste, Lydia, and Mary Anne, the characters we met in Maggie's first novel, Hollywood Girls Club, take on a new challenge-the Hollywood rumor mill. Those who fell in love with Marr’s witty writing and fast-paced plot will be eager to dive into this sequel.
I had some questions for Maggie:

What, if anything would you have done differently if you could beam yourself back in time and start your writing career again?

I would write more. I would convince myself that even though I still had a day job and all kinds of responsibilities and commitments that I really did have time to write every day and must must must do so. I would tell myself to remember that getting published is the starting line for being a published author and it's a marathon, not a sprint.

What has been the strangest/funniest/most unexpected thing that has happened to you since your book was published?

How many of my friends/colleagues in Entertainment call me asking about certain 'event' in my books...to see if they are based on this or that story that we've heard or witnessed.

I'm struggling with a complicated novel at the moment. Give me a good strategy for motivating myself to sit down and sort it out!

Hmmm, there is no better feeling than getting a word, sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, or book just right. Try to think about how AMAZING it will feel when the manuscript is finished and you know it's the very best it can be. That you've done everything within your capabilities to do service to the story you were given to write.