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enFebruary 21, 2024

87. Ashley C. Ford and the Ultimate Pivot - TCL Finale (?)

I know you’ve been waiting a long time on a wish and a promise for this final episode in the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series. I appreciate your patience while I went and figured out myself and my own potential pivots and reinventions!

The wait is over and I present to you my conversation with Ashley C. Ford, bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughterand lots more.

I’m so grateful to Ashley for her time and generosity in this conversation. I know you’re going to love it as much as I did.

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enNovember 08, 2023

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enOctober 28, 2023

TCL Mini: Updates & the Future

News about my next book, and an opportunity for space that I am taking!

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enJune 21, 2023

TCL Mini: The Writing Life Audit

This is the audio version of the most recent newsletter PLUS some thoughts about what's next for the pod.

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enMarch 22, 2023

86. Melissa Walker Takes Action

In late 2016, Melissa Walker was working on her 10th novel when she went to a holiday party and heard then Senator Daniel Squadron talk about the importance of state-level politics—even for the national landscape. She was inspired to take action. That action eventually grew into a pivot from full-time writing to full-time work with The States Project.

This conversation is everything I wanted from the Pivots, Comebacks and Reinventions series. It’s a great example of how passion and purpose can realign for a season or a reason, while the writing is still always there. It got surprisingly emotional for both of us; I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

(This conversation is explicitly political in places, which may or may not be your jam!)

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enMarch 08, 2023

TCL Mini: No Sure Things

The audio version of this week's newsletter on living with the uncertainty of writing.

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enJanuary 05, 2023

85. The Publishing Year in Review with Agent Michael Bourret

From the supply chain issues that started the year, to the conversation about AI that's ending it, I talk through the year in publishing with Michael Bourret of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Also, we answer listener questions!

This will be the last episode for the year, and the last one before a break during which I'll go off to Boston to teach and maybe even revise my novel. I'll be back (most likely in February) to pick up the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series.

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enDecember 21, 2022

84. Bennett Madison's Permission to Let Go

What do you do when you've established a writing career and then it's not giving you what you came for? What does it look like to be a person who writes but whose entire identity isn't wrapped up in Being a Writer? Is there life on the other side, if you can just let go? Bennett Madison joins me for the first time since 2013 to talk about the work of deprofessionalizing his writing life to pivot to joy in creative work--and a steady paycheck doing something else.