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BONUS! Alison Langley Has Some Questions for Us: On Specificity, Summary, and Surviving Your Readers' Assumptions
Langley's ILONA GETS A PHONE was released April 2024
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34:46
Shalene Gupta on Conducting Deeply Personal Interviews
Gupta's THE CYCLE was released in February 2024
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39:16
Henriette Lazaridis on Tackling the Omniscient Point of View
Lazaridis' LAST DAYS IN PLAKA releases April 2024
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29:46
Jennine Capo Crucet on Voice That Originates in a Sense of Place
Crucet's SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND was released in March
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45:47
Listener Roundup: Dialect & Rhythm, the "Too Quiet" Writer, Captain Happen, and How to Write With Empathy
with Anne Buckley, Jean Carlton, and Anna Carvlin
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Colwill Brown on the Art of the Sentence (& Training Your Ear to Hear it)
Brown's WE PRETTY PIECES OF FLESH releases in 2025
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Bryan VanDyke on Coping Mechanisms for the “Too Quiet” Writer (hint: Try an Unreliable Narrator)
VanDyke's IN OUR LIKENESS releases in September 2024
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Tessa Fontaine on Working with a Shy, Resistant Protagonist
Fontaine's THE RED GROVE releases May 2024
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Annie Weatherwax on Writing with Dyslexia & the Art of Seeing
Weatherwax's ALL WE HAD was adapted into a film by Katie Holmes
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Sarah Tomlinson on Writing Red Herrings in a Character-Driven Novel
Tomlinson's THE LAST DAYS OF THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS releases in February 2024
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Listener Roundup 2: Writer Humility, Accepting When It’s No Good, and Always Learning
with Patricia Manuel Go, Erica Ferencik, and Alison Langley
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Steve Almond on Avoiding Writer's Block by Chasing the Inner Life
Almond's TRUTH IS THE ARROW, MERCY IS THE BOW releases in April 2024
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The 7am Novelist
The 7am Novelist
Join award-winning novelist and writing teacher Michelle Hoover with tips and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, with a range of author interviews and writing challenges to help you get a new project going and keep you in your chair.
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