Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
277 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 372 ratingsWrite-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is currently in its fourth year. We are a weekly podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life. Hosted by Brooke Warner of She Writes and Grant Faulkner, former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and founder of 100 Word Story, each theme-focused episode of Write-minded features an interview with a writer, author, or publishing industry professional. This year we’re featuring a Book Trend at the end of each episode to keep listeners in the loop about what they need to know about the book industry. Brooke and Grant bring to this weekly podcast their shared spirit of community, collaboration, and a deeply held belief that everyone is a writer, and everyone’s story matters.
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Trauma as Stigma and Inspiration, featuring Paula McLain
April 26, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 19.3 MBOur conversation with Paula McLain is deep and intimate and doesn’t shy away from a few dark turns. We talk about how trauma is often a driving force, even inspiration, in our writing and our purpose; about writing as a feminist act; about intuitive writing . . . and so much more. Paula’s generosity in sharing her personal story and obstacles she’s faced is its own inspiration in this week’s show, and we get to hear firsthand some of what drew Paula to write her just-out novel, When the Stars...
Rewriting Classic Stories, featuring Ali Benjamin
April 19, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 15.6 MBThis week is a special episode in which Grant interviews New York Times best-selling author Ali Benjamin about how she reinvented Edith Wharton’s 1911 novella, Ethan Frome, for a modern-day audience. This interview, too, is as much about process than it is anything else—how Ali writes and constructs her stories, why she prefers revision over new writing, and the challenges she faced in creating a current-events story set against the backdrop of the Kavanaugh hearings. Not to be missed!
Capturing Universal Messages in Your Story, featuring Valarie Kaur
April 12, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 18.6 MBTo access the universal, start with the particular. This is guest Valarie Kaur’s response to the question of how she’s able to access such profound and resonant themes and messages in her work. With this and more, Kaur, who leads the Revolutionary Love Project, talks about her writing process, the experience of delivering her popular TED talk, and her journey to becoming an author after years and years of being told her work didn’t matter. This episode beckons listeners to reach for their own...
Writing Multi-generational Stories, featuring Gabriela Garcia
April 05, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 11.7 MBThe multi-generational story is one of the best-loved and most epic forms of fiction. In her debut novel, guest Gabriela Garcia beautifully executes a matrilinear story, and this week’s episode dives deep into questions of structure, legacy, voice, and centering women in fiction. Garcia’s Of Women and Salt is an extraordinary contribution to this literary form, and this insightful interview offers a glimpse into some of the considerations the author faced in the writing of the book.
Confessional Writing—or Just the Unvarnished Truth? featuring Kim Addonizio
March 29, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 16.4 MBConfessional writing—what is it? Something that needs to be defended? Just another way to disparage writers whose subject is self? This week’s episode with poet Kim Addonizio takes a look at what confessional writing might be, why the very characterization is problematic, and why Kim considers herself to be a poet of ideas.
Turning What You Love Into What You Do, featuring Tieshena Davis
March 22, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 13.5 MBMany authors discover their love of publishing through the process of publishing their work independently. In this episode, entrepreneur and publisher Tieshena Davis walks us through her journey from author to publisher, and inspires with her story of purpose and drive. This episode explores the intersection between doing what you love and loving what you do.
Geeking Out on Middle Grade, featuring Claire Swinarski
March 15, 2021 14:03 - 33 minutes - 16.8 MBThis week we’re spotlighting Middle Grade—as an evolving genre that’s increasingly popular not only with readers, but writers; and as a meaningful form that shapes kids’ understanding of the world. We’re geeking out with Middle Grade author Claire Swinarski—and even if you’re not writing Middle Grade, if you have a kid in your life, or were a reader as a kid, this episode is full of insights and information you won’t want to miss.
The Art of Writing Epic Stories without Villains, featuring Ann Patchett
March 08, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 17.7 MBThis week’s episode is in partnership with WomenLit and features the famously kind, down-to-earth, and beloved Ann Patchett in conversation with Brooke. Ann discusses why she doesn’t write villains, yes, but also why she invited someone she didn’t know all that well to live with her while she went through chemo treatment (the subject of her recent Harper’s piece, “These Precious Days”), as well as her experience as a bookstore owner, her ambivalence for social media, and much much more.
Writing Your Family Story, featuring Louis Chude-Sokei
March 01, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 18 MBThe family story drives so many writers to the page—regardless of genre, and in this week’s episode we hear from a writer who has an epic family story to tell. If you have a family story you want to write, you’ll relate to Louis Chude-Sokei’s exploration of needing distance on the one hand and having a fire under him to write his story on the other. We talk about Blackness in America, writing personal story in a way that highlights its uniqueness and its universality, and so much more. This e...
Getting Intentional with Your Writing, featuring Deesha Philyaw
February 22, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this upbeat and inspiring interview with The Secret Lives of Church Ladies author Deesha Philyaw, we talk about what it means to get intentional and how to get the kind of writing you really want to do off the backburner. We also get some insight into why Deesha writes about dissatisfied women and the power and influence of Bookstagramers.
A Writer’s Journey through Fantasy—and Revision, featuring Marie Lu
February 15, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 17 MBOne of the most hands-on tip-specific episodes we’ve done in a while, this week’s episode offers lots of great ideas about how to revise. Brooke and Grant share their go-to practices, and guest Marie Lu gives an overview of how her editor supports her through the deepening and layering of second, third, and more drafts. Plus we get some insight into Lu’s tireless journey (one that started when she was just thirteen years old!) to becoming the New York Times bestselling author she is today.
Indie Writing, Indie Publishing, featuring Orna Ross
February 08, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 15.7 MBThis Week's #WriteMindedPodcast guest, Orna Ross, is the queen of self-publishing. An award-winning and bestselling indie novelist and poet, she's also the founder-director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), the global nonprofit association for self-publishing authors. Tune in to today's episode to gain a wealth of indie publishing wisdom through the lens of self-publishing. If you've ever been curious about a future as an indie author, or wondered if you should try self-publishin...
Nora Ephron’s Rules of Writing: Voice, Voice, Voice! featuring Erin Carlson
February 01, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 15.5 MBVoice is the key to our self-expression, and yet it can feel elusive, difficult to capture. In this week’s episode, Write-minded guest Erin Carlson is channeling Nora Ephron, the subject of her most recent book, I’ll Have What She’s Having, and shares some of Nora’s wisdom about voice and being your own person on the page.
The Art of Plunging In, featuring Mateo Askaripour
January 25, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 14.1 MBWhat is the line between recklessness and self-confidence? This is the core question Grant and Brooke are exploring in this week’s episode. They’re joined by guest Mateo Askaripour, who certainly has experience with both—and who speaks to what’s to be gained by risking it all, and the reality that even the most confident of writers can and will lose faith along the way. Plunge in with us as we explore this topic of writing with abandon, writing with longing, whether to wade in, or whether to ...
Dreaming Big and On Your Own Terms, featuring S. Bear Bergman
January 18, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 17.1 MBDreaming Big and On Your Own Terms, featuring S. Bear Bergman Description: In this episode, we bring a guest whose story is intimately tied to Brooke’s personal journey out of traditional publishing. S. Bear Bergman shares with our listeners his own experience of the marginalization and “othering” he experienced as he worked to bring his experiences as a trans man to the page—and how and when he reached his “peak f-it moment,” prompting him to strike out on his own and found the publishing co...
Bringing Wonder to Your Writing Process, featuring Jane Smiley
January 11, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 15.8 MBThis week’s episode is in collaboration with WomenLit and brings us Brooke in conversation with Jane Smiley. In celebration of Jane’s latest novel, Perestroika in Paris, this is a conversation about wonder, about process, and about the upsides of being slow and steady. Jane is a true delight, a grounded and prolific author who always seems to be content being exactly where she is. So much to aspire to, and much to inspire too!
Happy New Year—and Getting Back to Normal? featuring Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
January 04, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 8.65 MBIt's a New Year!! Hallelujah. This week Brooke and Grant answer three questions around things they’ve been surprised that they miss, how their perceptions have shifted through the pandemic, and what they’re excited to get back to when things get back to “normal”—whatever and whenever that might be. And we invite our listeners to consider these questions for yourselves, too. HAPPY 2021!
Creating in Uncertainty, featuring Devi S. Laskar
December 28, 2020 11:00 - 29 minutes - 15.4 MBWhat would you do if you lost your finished manuscript due to circumstances outside of your control? This is this week’s guest’s story. Devi Laskar’s resilience in the aftermath of police raiding her home and confiscating her computer is just part of this amazing and wild tale. Devi’s experience led us to think about all the ways in which writing is naturally uncertain, how there are no guarantees, and her well-taken point that the only thing all published writers have in common is that they ...
Radical Writing, Radical Change, featuring Kate Schatz
December 21, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 16.7 MBThis week’s rad and radical episode touches upon the ways we are and aren’t educated in writing. Our guest, Kate Schatz, teaches writing, and was lucky to have had a teacher who championed her to become a writer. Not all of us get such early encouragement, but the good thing about our writing lives is that it’s never too late to seek out encouragement, collaboration, and other ways to bolster your writing lives and give you inspiration—including, we hope, this podcast.
Contemporary Poetry, featuring Michael Mejia
December 14, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 14.7 MBIn this heart-centered episode about poetry and the ways in which we touch each other through our words, guest Michael Mejia invites us to choose love over fear. In a wide-ranging conversation about how his brain injury set him free from writers’ block, to how he trusts the voice of poetry more than he trusts himself, this episode is a treat and a deep dive into the heart of what matters. We hope you’ll follow these links to watch two of Michael’s YouTube poetry videos here: “The Light of the...
The Perils and Pleasures of Writing About the Past, featuring Christina Baker Kline
December 07, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 16.8 MBThis week we are talking about writing about the past—and how history so rarely gives space to marginalized voices. Our guest is the #1 New York Times best-selling author Christina Baker Kline, who shares why it’s problematic that women writing about the past get ghettoized into historical fiction, and how she’s followed the threads of her last three novels, all of which have been set (at least in part) in the past. We love her activism and clear-eyed thoughts on publishing, women and writing...
From Bank Robber to Author to Mentor, featuring Joe Loya
November 30, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 12.7 MBThis week’s episode covers much territory, from cultivating mentors (whether they know they’re your mentors or not) to how to take care of yourself when writing trauma. This week’s guest, Joy Loya, had an unusual and powerful journey to becoming an author, and his story is testament to how we choose who we want to be in this world and how we show up.
Mining Humor in Serious Fiction, featuring Lysley Tenorio
November 23, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 16.1 MBHow humor shows up in literature is the worthy topic of this week’s show—and Brooke and Grant interview Lysley Tenorio, someone who’s known for having an eye for the weird and absurd and rendering poignant experiences onto the page through humor. We talk about the kiss of death for authors who are trying to be funny, and offer up some advice for what to do if you want to write humor. Most important, however, we’re celebrating humor this week—and recommending some books that will lighten your...
It’s All About the Story, featuring Donald Maass
November 16, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 17.2 MBDonald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. He is the author of Writing 21st Century Fiction and The Emotional Craft of Fiction, as well as many other books about the craft of writing. He's an author, a literary agent, past president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc., and all-around industry veteran who supports writers to hone and to embrace their craft. For more about Don and his agency, visit: http://maassagency.com.
The Enduring Power of the Books That Change Our Lives, featuring Laurie Halse Anderson
November 09, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 17.4 MBThis week’s powerful episode features Laurie Halse Anderson, who was one of the early voices of the #MeToo movement about two decades before survivors started to share their stories en masse. We talk with Laurie about writing your truth, why the books on the Banned Books List make for good lifetime reading, and why kids and teens are usually the smartest, savviest readers, and also the toughest critics. If you have your own survivor story, this is also an important and validating episode you ...
Publicity Isn’t Rocket Science, but It’s Dang Hard, featuring Fauzia Burke
November 02, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 15.7 MBAuthors and aspiring authors alike won’t want to miss this week’s episode about all the things authors are expected to do that have nothing to do with writing the book. Fauzia Burke is one of the most upbeat and positive publicists we know, and she breaks down the real value of publicity, what are some of the things authors can do on their own, and why reviews matter. Don’t miss this one, and archive it for future reference.
Personal Writing as a Method for Change, featuring Michelle Tea
October 26, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 18.9 MBIndie darling Michelle Tea has been writing for memoir for more than twenty years, and in this conversation, originally recorded with the San Francisco Writers Foundation, she and Brooke talk about their shared history through Seal Press, memoir as a catalyst for change, what makes a writer (like Michelle) have a cult following, and what the heck even is autofiction. A fast-paced, rollicking conversation about memoir, cross-genre writing, craft, and having no regrets. We invite you to read Br...
Creative Risk-taking, featuring Rebecca Roanhorse
October 19, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 15.4 MBThis week’s guest, Rebecca Roanhorse, says that she couldn’t write safe if she tried. In this far-reaching interview, we touch upon purpose-driven writing, writing outside the mainstream, and the challenges of getting published. Roanhorse encourages writers to take chances and reminds us all that sometimes you have to push the boundaries and understand that not everyone is going to like your work. Helpful advice for any writer who feels tentative about stepping into the fray: go for it!
NaNoPrep Special: Writing with the Gusts of a Writing Community, featuring Alexis Daria
October 12, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 15.1 MBWhether you’re already in a writing community, wanting to join one, or feeling apprehensive about whether a writing community is the right thing for you, this episode is your doorway to thinking about and engaging with community. Accountability, inspiration, friendships, motivation, and so many other reasons exist to join a writing community. As we gear up for NaNoWriMo (coming to you starting November 1st), know that this community is here for you, and this week’s guest, Alexis Daria, is her...
NaNoPrep Special: The Role of Self-Confidence in Writing and Publishing, featuring Hugh Howey
October 05, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 18.3 MBHugh Howey is a five-time NaNoWriMo participant who still can't believe he ever wrote a novel. His works have become New York Times bestsellers, have been translated into over forty languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. Four of his books are currently being adapted for film or television, including WOOL, SAND, and Beacon 23. All three of these were written in the month of November.
The Highs and Lows of Authoring a Series, featuring Michelle Cox
September 28, 2020 14:32 - 31 minutes - 16 MBSeries enthusiasts, this week’s episode tackles the why, the how, the ups, and the downs of series writing with She Writes Press author Michelle Cox, who’s written five books so far in her Henrietta and Inspector Howard series. Michelle shares her hard-earned wisdom and honest insights about series writing, publishing, and platform-building—as well as how she directs her characters like she imagines a movie director might. Inspiring conversation!
Making Your Words Matter, featuring Jacqueline Woodson
September 21, 2020 07:02 - 26 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this week’s episode, guest Jacqueline Woodson’s very interview is a window into the power of words. We touch upon meaning, taking the time to consider what words you put on the page, the value of slow reading, and how to find universal meaning in the small moments. Jacqueline writes across genres and is known for her spare style and lyricism, and listening to this interview should have the impact of sending her books straight to the top of your reading queue.
Building Bridges Across Borders, featuring Luis Alberto Urrea
September 14, 2020 13:42 - 40 minutes - 20.2 MBIn this week’s episode, Grant and Brooke speak with the ever-charming storyteller and best-selling author Luis Alberto Urrea about borders and how borders are often bridges to understanding. In this interview, Luis shares the rejection and pushback he experienced early in his career for tackling Mexican subjects and showcasing Mexican characters, and the pressure he got from the publishing industry to Anglicize his name. Listeners will be treated to fabulous stories and advice, and will also ...
In Defense of Memoir, featuring Mary Karr
September 08, 2020 16:11 - 39 minutes - 19.8 MBEven though Mary Karr has called memoir “a bastard,” and “an ugly little genre,” she’s also its biggest defender and champion. This interview, which kicks off the third year of Write-minded, covers some of the big topics that weigh on memoirists’ minds about truth and whether to fictionalize, as well as the importance of sensory details and why memoir is so popular despite its complex reputation. And since we reference Brooke’s 2015 onstage interview with Mary, we’re enclosing the link here, ...
Ready, Set, Publish, featuring Courtney Maum
August 31, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 15.9 MBIt’s back to school—in the weirdest possible iteration we’ve ever known, but still . . . And it’s in the back-to-school spirit that Brooke, Grant, and guest Courtney Maum talk about how to get published and how to stay published, the topic of Courtney’s latest book, Before and After the Book Deal. We’re covering good author etiquette, why you should never feel too confident about your own work, and how writers are—and are not writing—through the pandemic. This is our final episode of Year 2, ...
Extra! Extra! YA Special, featuring Nic Stone and Elizabeth Acevedo
August 24, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 17 MBYoung Adult novels are all the rage—because they’re not exclusively for young-adult readers; really these books are for everyone. These two interviews with YA superstar authors Nic Stone and Elizabeth Acevedo are both inspiring and timely. Both authors weave social justice issues into their fiction, which is a trend we will continue to see as young writers are coming of age in a world that is increasingly giving permission, but also demanding, that writers speak up and speak out. What a gift ...
Extra! Extra! Memoir Special, featuring Kiese Laymon and Jeannette Walls
August 17, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 18.7 MBIf you listen to Write-minded regularly, you know we have a soft spot for memoir—Brooke teaches it; Grant is wavering about whether to write one himself. So we’re bringing back two favorite guest interviews, best-selling authors Kiese Laymon (Heavy) and Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle) because these interviews are deep and inspiring, and above all else supportive to memoirists and by extension this increasingly popular genre. We’re sending our listeners positive summer vibes!
Extra! Extra! Dystopian Fiction Special, featuring Veronica Roth and Cory Doctorow
August 10, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 18.2 MBThis week Grant and Brooke are digging into their archived interviews to feature the first of three genre-specific mash-up episodes, starting with dystopian fiction—because, as Cory Doctorow’s novel Radicalized claims, “Dystopia is now!” As counterintuitive as it seems, listening to these two dystopian novelists will actually calm your anxieties, and hopefully inspire you to read (or write) more dystopian fiction.
Productive Procrastination, featuring Bridget Quinn
August 03, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 14.7 MBIn this week’s episode, Grant and Brooke share their worst moments of procrastination, and both come to the awareness that they probably are productive procrastinators. This week’s guest, Bridget Quinn, has some important insights into this topic, too, and shares about how she sold three books in five years after the devastating rejection of her memoir, and how keeping lots of irons in the fire is an effective strategy for writing success.
Challenging Assumptions with Your Writing, featuring Mary Pipher
July 27, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 16.5 MBThis week Brooke and Grant are challenging all kinds of assumptions—starting with unpacking books we’ve read that have challenged our own assumptions, and then with this week’s guest, Mary Pipher. Pipher, the best-selling author of Reviving Ophelia and Women Rowing North, gives us her take on ageism, “moral imagination,” and how and why she writes “for the reader, for the world.”
The Author Behind #PublishingPaidMe, featuring L.L. McKinney
July 20, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 17.7 MBThe publishing industry is on the front lines of the national conversation around diversity, equity, and inclusion—for good reason. The industry has a known race problem, but has been slow to do anything about it. Enter 2020. Today’s show dives into one of many of the stories making headlines this year that are calling publishing out and holding the industry to account. Guest L.L. McKinney started the #PublishingPaidMe hashtag—and talks with Grant and Brooke about advances, disparities in the...
Writing with Urgency, featuring Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
July 13, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 18.7 MBThis week Brooke and Grant tap into urgency in writing—when we write for survival, write to document our lived experience, write like we’re running out of time. Guest Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, author of Children of the Land, speaks to how #ownvoices contributed to the success of his memoir to the experience of surveillance and interrogation and how that shows up in his writing as a result of lived experience.
The Challenges and Satisfactions of Literary Fiction, featuring Eimear McBride
July 06, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 13.7 MBThis week we’re celebrating 100 episodes, and bringing you Brooke’s conversation with Eimear McBride (author of Strange Hotel and A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing). This is a rigorous and engaging conversation about the merits of literary fiction and why McBride wants her readers to actually take the effort to read her work. She is feisty and refreshing, saying, "I object to art being strangled by idiocy." This interview will make you want to be a better literary citizen.
Provocative Fiction, featuring Sameer Pandya
June 29, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 18.4 MBContemporary fiction often offers a window into what ails us and what consumes us. Tackling a hot-button topic like race is never easy, and yet many novelists are drawn to the challenge that controversial topics present—for purposes of sorting things out, sending a message, or capturing a moment. In this week’s episode we talk to guest Sameer Pandya about writing provocative (and debut) fiction, and Grant and Brooke reveal whether or not they work in pajama pants.
Storytelling, Legacy, and a Little Bit of Magic, featuring Jamia Wilson
June 22, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 17.6 MBThis week’s guest, Jamia Wilson, is the director and publisher of The Feminist Press, and so much more—which is how and why this episode turned out to be about storytelling, legacy, and, yes, magic. Listen in to consider how magic shows up in your world, and the ways in which you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, or how you might grow toward that as a goal or a calling.
Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Chelsea Bieker
June 15, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 16.1 MBWriting saves lives—the lives of readers and also the lives of writers. In this week’s episode we’re treated to guest Chelsea Bieker’s refreshing take on loving her own writing, how coming from a family of forgetters made her a writer, and why she chose to write her novel Godshot as a novel rather than a memoir when much of it centers on true events of Chelsea’s life. This week’s episode is an interview between Brooke and Chelsea as part of the Bay Area Book Festival’s WOMEN LIT series. Grant...
Breaking Silence, featuring Terese Marie Mailhot
June 08, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 17.6 MBThis week’s episode is not only about breaking silence, but also about the ways that silence is often a pile-on due to multiple layers of silencing. This week’s guest, Terese Mailhot, author of Heart Berries, is the ideal author to wall us through what makes breaking silence both difficult and compelling for writers. We also touch upon cultural appropriation, marginalizing and compartmentalizing voices, and the complexities of being raised by a radical mother.
Everything You Need to Know about Being a Writer, featuring Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon
June 01, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 17.8 MBThis week we get to hear from two publishing experts whose long careers have been centered on supporting authors—to publish, to be in community, and to trust their own hearts and process. Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon are the coauthors of a new book, The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer. We touch on a few highlights and are treated to a supportive and encouraging conversation for writers at any stage in their journey.
Diving Into Conflicts, featuring Melanie Abrams
May 25, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 16 MBThis week’s episode is an invitation to explore conflict, embrace conflict, and even revel in conflict. Grant and Brooke cite authors—like Vladimir Nabakov, James Scott Bell, and Dean R. Koontz—who will help you feel less conflicted about conflict. This week’s guest, Melanie Abrams, has a lot to share about conflict, from how she’s handled it in her own books, to how she grapples with it as a parent who writes (or a writer who parents), to the formula she urges her students to consider in the...
In Celebration of Indie Publishing, featuring Angela Bole
May 18, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 15.3 MBGet ready to soak up the goodness of indie publishing in this conversation with the CEO of the Independent Book Publishers Association. What does it mean to be indie? Hear about why Grant loves his indie publishers and how indie publishing saved Brooke. In this week’s episode we’re celebrating indie publishing’s inclusivity, its risk-taking, and, of course, its indepence. #ReadIndie