Mark interviews Suzy Vadori, Calgary Bestselling author of The Fountain Series, the founder of the Inspired Writing Community, a Resident Writing Coach for Writers Helping Writers, and the host of the Show, Don't Tell Writing Podcast.
Prior to the interview, Mark shares a brief personal update and a word from this episode’s sponsor.
This episode is sponsored by the Show, Don’t Tell Writing Podcast with Suzy Vadori. In this weekly show, Suzy brings you writing techniques, best practices, motivation, inspirational stories from real live authors out there making it in the world, and actionable advice that can help you turn that book you’re writing into the bestseller you know deep down that it can be.
During their interview, Mark and Suzy talk about:
- The last time Suzy was on the podcast in an episode talking about doing a book launch in collaboration with her local bookstore
- A little bit about who Suzy is and what she is passionate about
- Suzy's background that includes having a Commerce Bachelors Degree and being a Chief Operating Officer for a startup
- Suzy's main superpower, which is to take enormous amounts of information, feed them into her brain, and then to determine a path forward
- Applying skills that come from outside writing into the writing world
- The Suzy Vadori umbrella and how that came about
- The areas that Suzy is most passionate about helping writers with: the actual writing
- The myth that writing talent is all your need to be successful
- The free newsletter Suzy sends out to writers and some of the content that's contained within it
- Some of the tools Suzy uses to evaluate a writer's manuscript
- Suzy's "Show Don't Tell" Podcast
- The book that Suzy is currently working on which aligns with the branding for her podcast
- Advice that Suzy would offer to beginning writers
- And more . . .
After the interview Mark reflects on something Suzy said about bringing in skills and experience from outside the writing world.
Links of Interest:
- Suzy Vadori's Website
- Show, Don't Tell Writing Podcast
- EP 142 - Strategies For Launching a Book During a Pandemic with Suzy Vadori
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- EP 353 - Tao Wong on The Toronto Indie Author Conference
- Alex Lifeson's Speech on Behalf of Rush at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction
- Mark's YouTube channel
- Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
- An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
- The Relaxed Author
- Buy eBook Direct
- Buy Audiobook Direct
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
- This Time Around (Short Story)
- A Canadian Werewolf in New York
- Stowe Away (Novella)
- Fear and Longing in Los Angeles
- Fright Nights, Big City
- Lover's Moon
- Hex and the City
- Only Monsters in the Building
- The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
- Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Suzy Vadori is Calgary Bestselling Author of The Fountain Series (The Fountain, The West Woods, Wall of Wishes). This fantastical series has received three Aurora Nominations for Best Young Adult Novel. She is represented by Naomi Davis of Bookends Literary Agency.
Suzy is the founder of the Inspired Writing Community, a Resident Writing Coach for Writers Helping Writers, a touring member of the Young Alberta Book Society (YABS) and a Program Manager for When Words Collide (WWC), a festival for readers and writers.
Suzy specializes in breaking down complex writing concepts for newer writers into manageable steps, to get the book idea exploding in their minds onto the page in a way that will make readers take notice. She works with both fiction and nonfiction writers, in Memoir, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, and of course, Young Adult. Suzy is an Advanced Certified Book Coach from Jennie Nash’s Author Accelerator.
Suzy speaks to youth and adult audiences across Western Canada about how writing can unlock doors and help you achieve your goals, whatever they may be.
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
