AUSTIN — Elyse Myers is a theater kid, through and through.
Expressive, eclectic, effervescent. Her voice bounces off the walls of a large hotel meeting room, just like it echoed through my eardrums when listening to the audio version of her new story collection, "That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You." The digital creator, 32, yearned not just to read but perform for audiobook readers.
That makes sense, given she's used to broadcasting snippets of her life to her more than 7 million TikTok followers and nearly 4 million on Instagram. You've probably seen her arguably most famous TikTok, which has 24 million views, where she recounts the worst first date she's ever been on in which she buys a man 100 tacos (and it only spirals from there).
In her book, in a departure from what one can accomplish meaningfully on social media, she tells some stories in the third person.
"I wanted to be clear sometimes, when I was writing, what I was experiencing in my body and what I was almost watching happen, and it was kind of a way to also remove myself from it for a second and allow someone else to step into it and it and it be them," she said of the writing choice.
