Join me as I chat with Amy Minton about the author-narrator-character relation, focal distance in framed narratives and multi-timeline stories, and how to ground your reader... and perhaps frustrate them, but in good measure. This is a spoiler-lite episode focused on the craft, and we'll mention plenty of examples.

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BOOKS & SHORT STORIES MENTIONED:

• "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
• "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
• "The Kingkiller Chronicles" by Patrick Rothfuss
• "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
• "Maus" by Art Spiegelman
• "City of Thieves" by David Benioff
• "Heat" by Joyce Carol Oates
• "Friend of my Youth" by Alice Munro
• "Dolores Claiborne" by Stephen King
• "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges
• "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe
• "The Dregs" by Thomas J. Devens