Jo Piazza

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Hey all, Jo here, and you are listening to Under the Influence.

Actually, you're going to be listening to something different today.

I'm really excited to be producing a new podcast with one of my best friends, Dan Wakeford.

We're just getting this project off the ground, and I'm really excited to share it here with you first.

Welcome to Celebrity Intelligence with me, Dan Wakeford.

And me, Joe Piatta.

We've got this brand new podcast here all about celebrity, film, TV, showbiz, gossip, music, fashion, books, and of course, some pretty delicious scandals.

What were their names? I don't know why I'm stuck on that.

Joe and Amy.

I'm like, no, those are little women characters.

Annie and couldn't tell you.

So maybe we can talk a little bit more about that as we reconnect here.

But allow me to introduce Joe Piazza, who, while once upon a time was a bigwig editor and travel writer for many prestigious publications, she's gone on to become, among many other things, a bestselling author of Of lots of books, both fiction and nonfiction.

And one of them, which recently just came out, is the inspiration behind the hat that I'm wearing today.

So in case you're watching.

Let's do that, guys.

Buy millions of copies of this book.

Yeah, everybody go buy The Parisian Heist right now by Joe Piazza.

Yeah, and it's gorgeous in hardcover.

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That is so smart.

And they're also developing Joe Piazza's The Sicilian Inheritance.

They are essentially applying the early 2000s Marvel Studios playbook to the romance genre.

Wait, wait, wait.

Yes.

I am recommending The Parisian Heist by Jo Piazza.

I am a big fan of her books in general, but I'm really enjoying this one.

The blurb says, "It's a propulsive dual-time mystery drenched in art world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power."

And to me, when it happened, I literally had no expectation of that ever happening.

And then I will say I went to the first annual Catskills Book Festival over the weekend, and just, it was very casual and I was s- supporting Joe Piazza, who was hosting it, and I was talking to Andy Bartz, and it was great.

Anyway, someone came up to me and said that they discovered me because Such About Influence was a, a staff pick at Rough Draft years ago, and then they read it and really liked it, and then they read Little One and they loved it.

And she said, "Now you're an auto-buy author for me."