#356 - BT Hayes on EXPECTATIONS
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - August 02, 2023 16:01 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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High school creative writing teacher and first-time author BT Hayes chats with Trey Elling about EXPECTATIONS. Topics include:
The feeling of being published for the first time (0:35)
The basis of Expectations (1:32)
A timeline for the book (2:10)
Enjoying the research (3:28)
Picking up teenage dialogue thru his day job (5:33)
His fears for his own daughter manifesting in the book (7:25)
Have his kids read the book? (9:07)
A nervousness in sharing a morbid piece of work (9:24)
Why the title is "Expectations" (11:13)
Playing with preconceived notions (11:50)
A lesson from writing his first novel (14:16)