Overview

Vicky is back to talk about her fowl murder series. She started writing at the beginning of the pandemic and is up to book 6 in her series. We discuss what it's like to go from book 1 to 6 in a series and how her writing has changed.

Previous Episode: https://www.discoveredwordsmiths.com/2020/10/05/episode-20-victoria-tait-fowl-murder/

Her Book

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09B66WXJ4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B09B66WXJ4&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=c8becebf4bd960ff17dfbb015f04ae77

YouTube

https://youtu.be/CyW_CojNCOo

Transcript

Today on episode 93 of discovered word Smiths. I have Vicky Tate. She has been on before, earlier in the podcast run. And she's back to give us an update on her books. When we first talked to her, she had just written. Book, one of her series set in Afra Africa called a foul murder, F O U L. And she's back now with her sixth book and we have a good discussion on what it's been like writing a series in the, the COVID pandemic world, writing about a country she's not living in at the moment and everything about going from one book up to say, So, if you're interested in writing a series and wondering what it's like to have multiple books in a series out, this'll be a good podcast for you to listen to.

So take it away. Vicky Vicky officially welcome to discovered wordsmiths your second time on the podcast. I'm very excited to talk to you and we see each other this time and we didn't before last time. It was clear back on episode 20. That was like a year ago. It's really good. So you're welcome. Thanks.

Thanks for having

me back and wow. What a year it's been. I remember when we spoke, I was, yeah, it was back in Oregon, 2020 and the, in the UK, we thought things were getting better and we were all going to moving out of this and then, oh my goodness. What a year is been with more homeschooling and lots of traveling with Georgia and COVID and all the rest of it.

Uh, I think we all just need a pat on the back actually for getting through it and doing what we can, but I know you've been really busy this year.

Yeah. The podcast has been doing a lot. I've done a lot with my writing. And how about you? Have you been getting more writing in?

I have. And I followed you on now.

The dialogue doctor podcast went in and deaf and did some stuff with him on characterization and dialogue, which is just brilliant. Cause I love sort of. Dialogue first drafts when I really get into the groove and then go back and add in all the other details. And I think you were just ahead of beyond that one.

Yeah, that'd

be great. Let's talk about that a second, because I know Jeff I've met him. We've been at a conference together and I've done a couple of things and he's got a great concept. So for real quick, for everybody, listen. Jeff works with a company that creates training videos and uses AI. And he writes dialogue that then gets spoken by characters or whatever.

And so he's got a right realistic dialogue for this feedback. And a lot of this is using the AI and some of the new technologies so that the characters react. What. So what Jeff offers for authors is a dialogue overview. He doesn't look at the development of the story too much. He doesn't look at it. He looks at the dialogue,