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There’s a saying in the music industry: You have your whole life to make your first record. But one shot at making your second. 


Novelist Jennifer Moorhead (https://www.jennifermoorhead.com/) , wrote three books before publishing her debut, Broken Bayou in 2024. It’s a thriller inspired by a real murder mystery, tapping into the nation’s ongoing obsession with true crime. 


Jennifer has always been a bookworm. She grew up in Shreveport and went to LSU, later moving to Dallas where she took up a novel  writing class at Southern Methodist University. That’s when she wrote her first unpublished novel.


She paused to have her first child and wrote a second book when her kids were old enough to go to school, shelving it after a couple of edits. 


Jennifer dove into the publishing world with her third novel. She hired an editor. Worked with a literary agent and spent a year shopping the book. Unsuccessfully. 


Along the way, she had written the first draft of a fourth novel, Broken Bayou — in 2015. Inspired by the story of a missing teacher who police believed drove her car into the bayou, Broken Bayou is a crime thriller that follows a child psychologist thrust into a grisly mystery in small town Louisiana. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1662518773?...)  


The book was published by publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer and released in 2024, almost ten years after that first draft. 


Jennifer's story of tenacity in the face of the relentless rejection of the publishing industry is almost a novel in itself.


Out to Lunch Acadiana was recorded live over lunch at Tsunami Sushi (https://lafayette.servingsushi.com/) in downtown Lafayette. You can find photos from this show at itsacadiana.com (https://itsacadiana.com/2024/07/29/yo...) .


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