In 2011, Byron Lane was working the midnight to 7 a.m. graveyard shift as a newswriter for TV station KCAL 9 in Los Angeles when a friend reached out and asked, “Want to work for Princess Leia?” Th…
was working the midnight to 7 a.m. graveyard shift as a newswriter for TV station KCAL 9 in Los Angeles when a friend reached out and asked, “Want to work for Princess Leia?” The New Orleans transplant spent the next three years as’s personal assistant, doing everything from traveling with her to Australia and Japan to meting out her daily medications, prescribed for her bipolar disorder.
Carrie used to like to write that way also, to take some inspiration from real life and turn it into a fictional story. Those are the kinds of stories I like to read and those are the kinds of stories I like to write, so it sort of landed on that. And also being fiction, it does allow you the freedom to enhance moments for humor or emotion, so it really just gave me a little more freedom creatively.I went to her birthday party, which was in October — she died in December.
The descriptions in the book of Kathi Kannon’s house are so vividly wrought and absolutely hilarious. That line about the chairs made of animal corpses that she named after Chinese emperors — was anything in the home decor details rooted in truth? It was one of the highlights of my life, and not just because of the natural phenomenon aspect. That was one of the things on her bucket list and, of all the things she got to experience, of every exotic place she got to go, that was one she had never experienced. And I got to do it with her. It was really powerful and special, and it did happen a little bit as it was written in the book.
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