Flynn lives in Chicago with her husband and two kids. I feel like I’m in a really good place where I know what it is and I have that first draft and can really start playing.” In the meantime, she’s reveling in the “pure joy” of getting to read up-and-coming voices for her imprint and Donald O’Connor’s comedic stylings (which is also how she unwinds after writing about ~unlikable female characters~ all day). “It’s what I’m primarily working on right now. It’s just harder and harder to get in.”Īs for the million-dollar question: When can we expect Flynn’s long-awaited follow-up to Gone Girl? “Pretty soon,” she says. “That’s really what I’m excited about doing, and what I want to do, because I don’t know necessarily that I would have been able to publish my first book in the marketplace that we have now. The second title, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s foreboding translation mystery, The Centre, will be released July 11. “When I was asked if I wanted to have my own imprint, I was like, ‘Let’s get more voices out there,’” Flynn tells the Cut.
She has her own eponymous publishing imprint at Zando, which debuted earlier this year with the nun-detective novel Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy. She also penned the screenplay for Steve McQueen’s 2018 thriller, Widows, and was the showrunner on Prime Video’s sci-fi drama Utopia in 2020.
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For screenwriting the 2014 film adaptation of her novel, Gone Girl, she was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for writing multiple episodes of HBO’s limited series Sharp Objects, she was nominated for an Emmy. And that something’s always a little dark, and it always ties back to her first love: stories. Whether she’s crafting Miles Bron’s murder-mystery weekend, hosting a cruise, or writing a best seller that redefines the publishing industry, Gillian Flynn always has something going on.
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