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enFebruary 21, 2024
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The Launch Box 3. Subrights, Ingram Spark, & Depressed Cats
enNovember 20, 2021
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Sara helps cast her audiobook, Andrew gets a movie option, Sara learns more about Ingram Spark for self-publishing, and we both write letters to booksellers hoping to endear them to us. Also, everyone is burned out, including Andrew's cat.
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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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Audio Updates - October, 2023
Fall updates! New interview episode coming in November.
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enJune 21, 2023
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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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This Creative Life
enMarch 08, 2023
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The audio version of this week's newsletter on living with the uncertainty of writing.
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This Creative Life
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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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.
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TCL Mini: Year In Review
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Until then, here's the audio version of this week's newsletter, with a question for YOU about your dream writing podcast.
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enNovember 30, 2022