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- S3 E11: Claribel & Kat & Words Matter
Claribel and Kat discuss some current events and how they’re coping. As well as how powerful words can be, and how important it is for us to take responsibility for them.
MENTIONS:
- Sunrise Movement
- Claribel TikTok
- Kat TikTok
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- Order GHOST SQUAD
- Add FRIZZY on Goodreads
- www.claribelortega.com
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- Order WICKED FOX!
- Order VICIOUS SPIRITS (sequel to WICKED FOX)
- Add ONCE UPON A K-PROM on Goodreads
- www.katchowrites.com
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48 min - S3 E10: Claribel & Kat & End-of-the-Year Check-In
Claribel and Kat discuss 2020, what it was like for Claribel to debut this year, and some trends they’ve noticed in the community. Plus, they discuss methods to try to allow for self-care and positivity in your life as potential coping mechanisms when going through a hard time. And how to cultivate better work habits for themselves as full-time writers.
Mentions:
Claribel’s GMA appearance
Read Free Hexel
DVCon
DivBookFest
Romance is a Bonus Book
W: Two Worlds
Boys over Flowers
Mystic Pop Up Bar
Spinning Silver
To Kill a Kingdom
Magic for Liars
The Gravity of Us
Be Dazzled
All of Us Villains
Silence of Bones
These Violent Delights
Stand Up, Yumi Chung
Lore Olympus
Follow Claribel Ortega online: Twitter | Instagram | Youtube
Order GHOST SQUAD
Add FRIZZY on Goodreads
www.claribelortega.com
Follow Kat Cho online: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Order WICKED FOX!
Order VICIOUS SPIRITS (sequel to WICKED FOX)
Add ONCE UPON A K-PROM on Goodreads
www.katchowrites.com
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1 hr 16 min - S3 E9: Chloe Gong & Shakespeare’s Ghost is Looking Out For You
Claribel and Kat discuss #PublishingPaidMe and break down why it’s such an important conversation in publishing. Then they interview NYT bestselling debut author, Chloe Gong about These Violent Delights, her Chinese retelling of Romeo and Juliet in historical Shanghai! We discuss how she got into writing (and how writing for herself helped her write a unique story) and her research process for both the setting and historical time period she chose to set her debut novel.
Bio:
Chloe Gong is a student at the University of Pennsylvania, studying English and international relations. During her breaks, she’s either at home in New Zealand or visiting her many relatives in Shanghai. Chloe has been known to mysteriously appear when “Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s best plays and doesn’t deserve its slander in pop culture” is chanted into a mirror three times.
Follow Chloe Gong online: Twitter | Instagram | Website
Order THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
Mentions:
PublishingPaidMe
Discussed: Profit & Loss (P&L), Advances
Twitter apologises for ‘racist’ image-cropping algorithm
Follow Claribel Ortega online: Twitter | Instagram | Youtube
Order GHOST SQUAD
Add FRIZZY on Goodreads
www.claribelortega.com
Follow Kat Cho online: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Order WICKED FOX!
Order VICIOUS SPIRITS (sequel to WICKED FOX)
Add ONCE UPON A K-PROM on Goodreads
www.katchowrites.com
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54 min - S3 E8: Nikki Barthelmess & Growing With Your Agent
Kat and Claribel talk about virtual events and how to avoid burn out. They they talk to YA author Nikki Barthelmess about how her life inspired her novels, how she ended up working with her two agents when her original agent’s assistant was promoted and became her agent!
Bio:
Nikki Barthelmess is an author of young adult books, including THE QUIET YOU CARRY (out now!), QUIET NO MORE (Flux, fall 2020), and EVERYTHING WITHIN AND IN BETWEEN (HarperChildren’s, fall 2021). Nikki entered foster care in Nevada at twelve and spent the next six years living in six different towns. During this time, Nikki found solace in books, her journal, and the teachers who encouraged her as a writer. A graduate of the University of Nevada, Nikki lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, daughter, and pride-and-joy Corgi pup.
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Buy The Quiet You Carry
Buy Quiet No More
Mentions:
Sarah Gerton (agent at Curtis Brown)
Welcome Home Anthology
Follow Claribel Ortega online: Twitter | Instagram | Youtube
Order GHOST SQUAD
Add FRIZZY on Goodreads
www.claribelortega.com
Follow Kat Cho online: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Order WICKED FOX!
Order VICIOUS SPIRITS (sequel to WICKED FOX)
www.katchowrites.com
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1 hr 6 min - S3 E7: Mara Fitzgerald & So Much Wisdom With This EpisodeClaribel and Kat discuss why problematic books keep getting published and why the publishing industry has to hold itself accountable beforehand so this stops happening. Then they interview Mara Fitzgerald about her debut YA fantasy, BEYOND THE RUBY VEIL, and how being true to her voice helped her write the book that got her an […]1 hr 27 min
- S3 E6: Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher & Please Vote!
Claribel and Kat discuss how to refill the creative well (especially considering how stressful current events are on the creative mind). Then they interview NYT bestselling author and activist Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher about their new YA novel Sanctuary, making a statement with your art, envisioning a diverse future where we center minority narratives.
Bio: Abby Sher is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion and Behind the Bedroom Door: Getting it, Giving it, Loving it, Missing it as well as in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Self, Jane, Elle, HeeB and Redbook. She is also the author of the young adult novel Kissing Snowflakes. Abby has written and performed for the Second City in Chicago and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and Magnet Theater in New York. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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Bio: Paola Mendoza is a film director, activist, author, and artist working at the leading edge of human rights. A co-founder of the Women's March, Paola served as its Artistic Director and co-authored the New York Times bestseller Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World.
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Order Sanctuary
Mentions:
Register to Vote: https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
Vote by mail: http://votesaveamerica.com/everylastvote/
Follow Claribel Ortega online: Twitter | Instagram | Youtube
Order GHOST SQUAD
Add FRIZZY on Goodreads
www.claribelortega.com
Follow Kat Cho online: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Order WICKED FOX!
Order VICIOUS SPIRITS (sequel to WICKED FOX)
www.katchowrites.com
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Join our WorDie community!
59 min - S3 E5: Alechia Dow & Don’t Ever Lick Your Checks
This week, Claribel and Kat talk about who to follow on social media to learn more about the industry and writing as well as how to discuss authentic representation with your writer friends or as a sensitivity reader. Then they interview debut sci-fi author Alechia Dow on what it was like writing her amazing novel The Sound of Stars, Debuting while living abroad, and her amazing booky cookies!
ABOUT ALECHIA:
Alechia Dow is a former pastry chef, food critic, culinary teacher, and Youth Services librarian. When not writing YA sci-fi featuring determined black girls (like herself), you can find her having epic dance parties with her daughter, baking, mentoring, or taking teeny adventures around Europe.
Follow Alechia: Website | Twitter | Instagram
Alechia’s Books:
THE SOUND OF STARS
THE KINDRED
Mentions:
Booky Cookies
Writing in the Margins Mentorship
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Dahlia Adler
Susan Dennard
Alexandra Bracken
Kwame Mbalia
LD Lewis
Courtney Milan
DJ Older
Tiffany Jackson
Patrice Caldwell (agent)
Shelly Romero (editor)
Beth Phelan (agent)
Suzie Townsend (agent)
Latinx in Pub
POC in Pub
LasMusas
1 hr 18 min - S3 E4: Alexis Henderson & A Fear Factor of SevenClaribel & Kat discuss IP (Intellectual Property) and recent Twitter discourse. Then they interview fantasy horror author, Alexis Henderson, about her debut novel The Year of the Witching, what it was like going on sub as a crossover YA/Adult and what went into her decision to go with an adult imprint over YA. And we […]53 min
- S3 E3: Janella Angeles & Emailing Andrew Lloyd WebberEpisode Description: Claribel and Kat discuss recent Twitter discourse about sharing good news and professional jealousy. How to deal with these feelings and refer to amazing advice from Holly Black’s WorD episode about jealousy! Then they talk to Janella Angeles about her debut Where Dreams Descend, what it feels like to pick yourself up after […]1 hr 39 min
- S3 E2: Shveta Thakrar & I Thought Office Jobs Would be Like TVEpisode Description: Claribel and Kat talk about the rising discussions of diversity in publishing (both in the talent and behind-the-scenes) and how these aren’t new talks but they’re finally being taken more seriously and how it’s felt being constantly dismissed as POC in the industry (plus some Anti-Racist Resources). Then they talk to the wonderful […]54 min
About Write Or Die Podcast
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The Write or Die Podcast shares the real stories about what it takes to become an author – the gritty, infuriating, pull your hair out because it’s been years – stories of writers who didn’t give up…
despite it all, and are now living out their dream. It’s hosted by NYT & #1 Indie bestselling author Claribel A. Ortega and NYT & international bestselling author Kat Cho and releases every other Monday!