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Ep 129 - "Overcoming Writer's Block During Quarantine Pt 1"
Writer Experience
English - January 12, 2021 23:47 - 20 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jay Faerber is a critically-acclaimed comic book and television writer. Currently he is a writer for The CW TV series Supergirl. He is also known for co-creating and writing such comic book series as Elsewhere, Copperhead, Noble Causes, Dynamo 5, and Near Death at Image Comics, and has worked on such iconic titles as Generation X, X-Men, and New Warriors for Marvel Comics, and The Titans and Green Lantern for DC Comics. He was also a writer for the TV series Star-Crossed and Zoo.
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Barbara Bottner is a New York Times bestselling author. Since growing up in the 1960s Bronx, Barbara has had a hand in almost every aspect of book publishing. She has written and illustrated over 50 books for children, has reviewed books for major trade and consumer publications such as The New York Times, has published short stories and essays in national newspapers and magazines, has written written sitcoms and screenplays, and has been teaching writing and illustrating in major institutions, including UCLA, Otis Parsons, and the University of Miami since 1973. Barbara’s first young adult novel since the 1980s, I AM HERE NOW, just released in August and is on sale now.
Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, both fiction and non-fiction and has been the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life since the magazine's first issue in 1994. Her newest book is Speed of Life, which received starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Booklist. The New York Times Book Review called it "perceptive, funny and moving." About Ava and Pip, the New York Times Book Review said, "This is a book about sisterhood, but also a love letter to language." Carol has been on Today, CNN, Oprah, and The View and teaches writing at the New York Society Library. She’s also big on cats, walking, skiing, and art museums. Her husband, Rob Ackerman, a playwright who has done props for the SNL film unit for 25 years, was previously on the show. Carol published 3 personal essays in 2020, “Book Club With My Husband”, “Why My App Is So Very Proud of Me”, and “How I Finally Finally Finally became a Novelist”, which can all be found on her website.
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Danny Rubin is a screenwriter and playwright. He co-wrote with Harold Ramis the screenplay for Groundhog Day, for which the two received a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He received a B.A. in biology from Brown University and a M.A. in radio, television, and film from Northwestern University. Danny has taught screenwriting at numerous universities and lectured on the topic at academic conferences since 1995. He was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard University.
Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ararat, Snowblind, Dead Ringers, and Of Saints and Shadows, among many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Chris is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities. His new novel, RED HANDS (released December 8th through St. Martins Press), is a part of the Ben Walker series which has been optioned by AGC for television development.
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Joy Gorman Wettels is a partner and producer at Anonymous Content focused on social impact content for women and youth. She’s also the executive producer of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark, and the feature films Seeking a Friend For the End of the World and The Meddler.
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