writersofcolor

This episode is part of the Happy Campers Interview series.

Since April 2020, Nicole Rivera has been hosting an online writing community intensive called the Happy Campers Club. Now Nicole is writing the Stop Writing Alone book about all of her experience with writing community, and wanted to the perspective from the members in the club. This is one interview toward that end.

 

Audrea Martin is a cozy mystery writer getting ready to release her debut novel Blue Blue Christmas. In this episode she discusses how she fell in love with cozy mystery, strove to find herself in the genre and then worked to create the stories she craved. She shares her experiences within writing community, in writing conferences, and her love of books on the craft that she has turned into a new venture with Amy Strong on their YouTube channel The Write Crowd. 

 

Mentioned in this episode:

 

• Audrea Martin’s 
• • Website https://audreajackmartin.com/
  • Instagram https://www.instagram.com/soveryaud/ 
  • YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpr-7kh4ySX7AQ3Y5WQNFVQ/featured 
  • Clubhouse @soveryaud
• Communities mentioned 
• • Crime Writers of Color https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/
  • Sisters in Crime https://www.sistersincrime.org/ 
• Conventions mentioned
• • 20 Books To 50K  https://www.facebook.com/groups/20Booksto50k/about/ 
  • Bouchercon https://www.bouchercon.com/
  • Thrillerfest https://thrillerfest.com/
  • Writers Police Academy https://writerspoliceacademy.online/ 
• Books mentioneed
• • Jane Cleland MASTERING SUSPENSE https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781599639673
  • Sara Rosette HOW TO OUTLINE A COZY MYSTERY https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780998843155 
  • Nina Harrington https://ninaharrington.com/the-prolific-author/
• STORY HOARDER Substack (The new home for Nicole’s writing): https://storyhoarder.substack.com
• Music for coffee break from freesound by lemoncreme https://freesound.org/people/Lemoncreme/sounds/186942/ 

• Stop Writing Alone FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/
• Stop Writing Alone Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/Stopwritingalone 
• NV Rivera YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPlp1EVzQhDFPdGp5w2KoQ?view_as=subscriber 
• Stay connected to learn about all Stop Writing Alone stuff -- get on Nicole’s email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals 
• Buy Nicole a coffee (AKA support the podcast!) https://ko-fi.com/stopwritingalone

 

Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:

• Stop Writing Alone FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/stopwritingalone/
• Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/
• Stop Writing Alone website: https://stopwritingalone.com/
• Join the Stop Writing Alone email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals 
• Stop Writing Alone Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stopwritingalone/ 
• Nicole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nv_rivera 
• The Stop Writing Alone voice number (call to introduce yourself!): (646) 907-9607 

 

When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole’s Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!). Please support these women who do so much to support Nicole on a daily basis!

• Kim A. Flodin https://www.kelekilove.com/ 
• Lisa Murray https://ihavedreamsdammit.com/
• Claire Oldham West https://slimmingstories.podbean.com/
• Johanna Jaquez-Peralta https://www.instagram.com/latina_livin_keto/
• Emma Isaacs https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/ 

 

As Black History month comes to a close and Women’s History month is about to begin, Nicole shares what she believes to be failures in her own History education and how that can affect her writing. In this episode, Nicole discusses what responsibilities she believes writers have to fill the “in-betweens” in their own education and exposure providing some resources to get started. 

 

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Previous episodes about this topic:
• • Episode 72: The Single Story Cure https://stopwritingalone.com/2020/06/04/episode-72-the-single-story-cure/ 
• Books on Writing by Walter Mosley
• • ELEMENTS OF FICTION https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780802147639 
  • THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780316065498
• Robert Fleming THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS HANDBOOK https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780345423276 
• Angela Benson TELLING THE TALE: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION WRITER’S GUIDE https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Tale-African-American-Fiction-Writers/dp/0425170543/ref=sr_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=angela+benson&qid=1614235711&sr=8-16 
• Walter Dean Myers JUST WRITE! HERE’S HOW https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780062203908
• INVISIBLE QUEEN by Stephanie E. Myers http://myerspublishing.com/ 
• RECKLESS by Selena Montgomery https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780061376030
• BLACK BUCK by Mateo Askaripor https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780358380887
• THE CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE by Tomi Adeyemi https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781250170972 
• THE BODY IS NOT AN APOLOGY by Sonya Renee Taylor https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781523090990 
• WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781555977672 
• Introduction to Friday Night Writes with Stop Writing Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syi6s1pDYs&t=1s 
• Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/
• Stop Writing Alone Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/Stopwritingalone 
• NV Rivera YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPlp1EVzQhDFPdGp5w2KoQ?view_as=subscriber 
• Stay connected to learn about all Stop Writing Alone stuff -- get on Nicole’s email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals 
• Buy Nicole a coffee (AKA support the podcast!) https://ko-fi.com/stopwritingalone

 

Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:

• Stop Writing Alone FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/stopwritingalone/
• Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/
• Stop Writing Alone website: https://stopwritingalone.com/
• Join the Stop Writing Alone email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals 
• Stop Writing Alone Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stopwritingalone/ 
• Nicole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nv_rivera 
• The Stop Writing Alone voice number (call to introduce yourself!): (646) 907-9607 

 

When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole’s Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!). Please support these women who do so much to support Nicole on a daily basis!

• Kim A. Flodin https://www.kelekilove.com/ 
• Lisa Murray https://ihavedreamsdammit.com/
• Claire Oldham West https://slimmingstories.podbean.com/
• Johanna Jaquez-Peralta https://www.instagram.com/latina_livin_keto/
• Emma Isaacs https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/