The Stories Between Us

The Stories Between Us

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The Stories Between Us episodes

  • Headlight Living During a Pandemic
    "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights but you can make the entire trip that way." E.L. Doctorow
    We think living is a lot like that, too, especially in these uncertain days. So we talk about how our life fell apart in 2009, ten years ago, what it was like to see only as far as our headlights, and we try to encourage those of you who feel like your life has disintegrated in this most recent wave of uncertainty. 
    We're all in this together.
    21 min
  • 024 Steve Weins: Collective Grief, Feedback, and Life in These Strange Times

    Today we talk with one of my favorite people: author, podcaster, and pastor Steve Wiens. He shares with us about collective grief, we talk about the toughest revisions we've ever been asked to make on a book, and he gives us plenty to be hopeful about.

    Steve's new book, Shining Like the Sun, releases today! Celebrate with all of us by ordering your own copy.

    41 min
  • Steve Weins: Collective Grief, Feedback, and Life in These Strange Times
    Today we talk with one of my favorite people: author, podcaster, and pastor Steve Wiens. He shares with us about collective grief, we talk about the toughest revisions we've ever been asked to make on a book, and he gives us plenty to be hopeful about. 
    Steve's new book, Shining Like the Sun, releases today! Celebrate with all of us by ordering your own copy.
    41 min
  • 023 Leslie and Adam Verner: Forging a Creative Life

    Today we speak with our creative doppelgangers, another couple trying to make it work in the freelance world. Leslie Verner is an author, freelance writer, and speaker, and her husband Adam is a book narrator. That's right. He has the dream job of reading books FOR A LIVING. We talk about how to make it in the creative world, what it's like living with another creative person, and serving the reader versus serving the work.

    42 min
  • Leslie and Adam Verner: Forging a Creative Life
    Today we speak with our creative doppelgangers, another couple trying to make it work in the freelance world. Leslie Verner is an author, freelance writer, and speaker, and her husband Adam is a book narrator. That's right. He has the dream job of reading books FOR A LIVING. We talk about how to make it in the creative world, what it's like living with another creative person, and serving the reader versus serving the work.
    42 min
  • 022 Overcoming Fear, Rejection, and the Great Resistance

    Maile and Shawn discuss the strange new world we are all living in as well as the book on creativity, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. They delve into the fears that try to keep them from creating, and Maile shares an update on her recent querying of agents to represent her middle grade books.

    33 min
  • Overcoming Fear, Rejection, and the Great Resistance
    Maile and Shawn discuss the strange new world we are all living in as well as the book on creativity, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. They delve into the fears that try to keep them from creating, and Maile shares an update on her recent querying of agents to represent her middle grade books.
    33 min
  • 021 Yangsze Choo: Wrestling Down the Story (With the Help of Dark Chocolate)

    Yangsze Choo is the author of two amazing novels: The Night Tiger (a Reese Witherspoon book club pick) and The Ghost Bride (a new Netflix series), and this week she joins us to chat about procrastination, the quick fix versus the long work of writing, and how to write when the kids are home for summer vacation.

    This episode was recorded before the Coronavirus became part of our everyday lives, which means much of what we talk about feels like it happens in another world, but Yangsze is such a calming, gentle voice. I know you'll enjoy hearing from her.

    41 min
  • Yangsze Choo: Wrestling Down the Story (With the Help of Dark Chocolate)
    Yangsze Choo is the author of two amazing novels: The Night Tiger (a Reese Witherspoon book club pick) and The Ghost Bride (a new Netflix series), and this week she joins us to chat about procrastination, the quick fix versus the long work of writing, and how to write when the kids are home for summer vacation.
    This episode was recorded before the Coronavirus became part of our everyday lives. Maybe this conversation will provide you with a much-needed escape from these difficult times.
    41 min
  • 020 Devi Laskar: Some Thoughts On Not Quitting

    Today we talk with Devi Laskar, the award-winning author of the fabulous book, The Atlas of Reds and Blues. We discuss the importance of teachers in forming our literary interest, and Devi shares her long and difficult (and ultimately extremely encouraging) journey into publishing which included losing a manuscript.

    Devi gives some of the most practical creative advice anyone has given on the podcast. If you feel like giving up, or if you want to be encouraged in your creative pursuits, you don't want to miss this one.

    34 min

About The Stories Between Us

From the publisher's feed

Two writers, Shawn Smucker and Maile Silva, married to each other, explore the highs and lows of creativity, publishing, and the writing life.