While her first novel, "The Chest of Drawers in Colors", was released just six months ago, singer and writer Olivia Ruiz has already started writing a second book.
But it should not be waited too quickly, as she explains at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.
With 120,000 copies sold since its release on June 3, 2020, Olivia Ruiz's first novel,
The Colored Drawer Dresser,
has become in six months a real bookstore phenomenon.
The singer and writer, who initially refused to send her manuscript on the journey of Spanish immigrants to publishing houses, explains in
It's good to
have already started writing a second novel.
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A non-priority project
This time, Olivia Ruiz writes her book well with the idea of having it published.
But she's getting down to it slowly.
"I started writing this second novel, I sent a little something to my editor," she reveals.
"But right now I'm working on my own."
For
The dresser with the colored drawers,
Olivia Ruiz worked in fact almost in duet with her agent, to whom she had to send each week the new pages written to motivate her to advance in the drafting.
This time, she's going about it differently, at least for now.
"If I start to go too much into the concrete work of writing, then I'm going to be hassled every week to send him stuff," laughs Olivia Ruiz.
"So I'm going on my own and when I really have the time to really get down to it, I'll think about really sending him the texts. But I have a lot of other things to do on the right to the left, before immerse myself in the work of writing. "
It must be said that the artist has more urgent projects on the go.
In 2021, she will finally resume with the tour of her show
Bouches cousues
, most of the dates of which have been canceled this year due to the health crisis.
She may then continue writing her second book at a more sustained pace.
In any case, the writer keeps the subject of her new story secret.