Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview
Amy: It was a beautiful scene when you said he told you that when he saw the potato peels in the garbage decades after the war ended, but he saw there was potato attached to the peels, he couldn’t help it. His mouth watered. It was like his body was just programmed to.
Bonny: Yeah, it’s a flashback. Anyway, things happened after I started writing, right? Because it stirred things up, and it was fascinating and helpful, but also quite scary. What am I messing with here? The first person that I pitched to told me, If your restaurants are not famous, no one is going to buy your book. I was very discouraged, but I didn’t change anything. I went to the second meeting, you know, kind of down, and the second agent that I pitched to said to me at the end of my pitch, when your proposal is ready, I’d love to see it. And I was so excited. And I said, Oh, it’ll be ready in two weeks. And she said, Whenever it’s ready. And of course, it was six months, because she sent me a template, I had to make some adjustments because it was January, and I sent it in May. Five months later I sent it, and two days later, she called me and said, “I’d like to sign with you,”
