The Room to Write – The Journey of a Story Podcast

Colleen sits down with author Linda Malcom to discuss her process and the world of writing.

Colleen sits down with playwright David Mauriello to discuss his process and the world of writing.

Colleen Getty sits down with guest Sandra Elaine Scott, Award Winning Author and Speaker.

Colleen sits down with guest Dom Capossela to discuss his practices in writing and life.

This episode features local children's Middle Grade book writer Rajani LaRocca. She talks about how she balances being a mother, a medical doctor and an author. Rajani tells us where she finds her stories, such as Midsummer's Mayhem, and her experience with seeing herself in a story as a young girl.

This episode features networking guru and author of Mingle to Millions Cami Baker. She talks about how writing a book is one of the best ways to market yourself--and that you can kick-start your writing process by filming yourself instead of staring at a blank page. Cami has some great tips and tricks on how to get noticed if you already have a book published and ways to push yourself out of your comfort zone and into the market.

This episode features author Abettina Dell'Orfano Morano who wrote and published the story of her parents' migration from Italy to America, title Fading Shadows, when she was in her 90s. She talks about how her son's gift of a computer started her on her way to writing down the stories in her family. Abettina also shares how the process of setting her stories onto paper and sharing them with others has impacted her life as she encourages others to tell their stories.

This episode features multi-talented graphic novel author and illustrator Dirk Tiede. He talks about his Paradigm Shift graphic novel series and the process of being both the writer and the illustrator for a series--and which comes first, the text or the drawings. He talks about what a graphic novel is, exactly, and the influence of social media on his art and his audience in the past, present and future.

This episode features debut picture book author Kelly Carey. She talks about her debut picture book How Long is Forever? and shares some very useful tips about how to get started in the magazine article writing space and how different the processes are when writing articles for kids' magazines and writing books for kids. Kelly explains how the blog 24 Carrot Writing evolved and the need to set goals and stick to them as a writer.

This episode features local children's book writer Carol Gordon Ekster. Carol was our very first writer in the interview series and taught us about everything from starting with a blank page and turning to everyday voices and experiences for inspiration to rethinking an old project and repackaging it for a different market you hadn't considered originally. Carol talks about the process of publishing a children's book and process of collaborating with an illustrator you have never met.