Corinne Cunningham's book, Farm Girl, is a beautiful story about the family and places we choose. Laura and Beth talk with Corinne about the process of writing this book, how the story came to her, and why she finally decided to self-publish. We talk about giving ourselves permission instead of waiting for someone else to do it for us and about knowing your why and the "why" for your particular book.

We loved this conversation with Corinne and we hope you will too.

This is our first “Book club” episode. We plan to have roughly one episode a month that dives more deeply into one particular book or book series.

In this episode we discuss our impressions of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. We talk about what we liked, the story choices that surprised us, our favorite characters, the emotional draws of the book, and what we learned from this book as writers.

If you haven’t read The Graveyard book, the basic thing you need to know before listening is that the book takes place in a graveyard, where a living boy is being raised by ghosts. We try to stay away from talking to specifically about main plot points and we hope listening to this episode will spark your interest to read the book.

If you have read The Graveyard Book, we hope you’ll enjoy this episode even more because of being able to follow right along with us as we mention various things from the story.

Keep reading, and writing, and putting yourself out there!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

In this episode Laura and Beth talk about social media, anxiety as creatives, the value of every voice, and how to push past our self-doubt.

We hope you enjoy it!

In this episode Laura and Beth discuss the emotionally subjective nature of what makes a book "a page turner." Sometimes the only reason we "can't put a book down" is how it hits us emotionally in that moment.

We also discuss point of view (POV) and the importance of the right point of view for readers connecting with the story.

We hope you enjoy this episode.

In this episode Laura (aka The Verbivore) interviews Beth (aka Fable). We talk about when Beth first fell in love with writing, books that influenced her as a child, and her current writing work.

We hope you enjoy this episode and that you'll join us next time for more bookish and writerly conversations.

This is a podcast for writers who read, readers who write, and anyone who loves books.

In this episode Beth (aka Fable) interviews Laura (aka The Verbivore) so you can all get to know her a little more. Laura talks about the first book she remembers really loving, her current writing projects, her love of words, and more.

We hope you enjoy this introduction and we look forward to sharing with you more.