Writer Experience

Ep 138 - "Overcoming Writer's Block During Quarantine Pt 2" by Writer Experience

Alex London writes books for adults including One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in Warm, children including Dog Tags series and An Accidental Adventure series, and teens including Proxy. At one time a journalist who traveled the world reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, he is now a full time novelist living in Philadelphia.

Alex' most recent book, the third and final installment in his Skybound Saga series, Gold Wings Rising, is in stores now!

https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Wings-Rising-Skybound-Saga/dp/0374306893

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Kate Hope Day is the author of If, Then and the upcoming novel, In the Quick. She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh and was an associate producer at HBO. The television rights for If, Then sparked a heated auction, which Heyday Films, the creator of the Harry Potter movies and Gravity, eventually won. Apple TV has greenlit the project contingent upon casting, with NBCUniversal as studio. Kate will be a co-producer for the show.

IN THE QUICK is in stores now.

https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Novel-Kate-Hope-Day/dp/0525511253

https://www.instagram.com/katehopeday

Carol Edgarian is the author of the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, winner of the ANC Freedom Prize. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many others. She is co-founder of the non-profit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, and art, and Narrative in the Schools, which provides reading and writing resources to teachers and students around the world. She’s also written for the screen, is developing a limited series for Three Stages of Amazement, teaches fiction, and is a frequent speaker at speaking events around the world on the art of story.

Carol's newest novel, VERA, is in stores now!

https://www.amazon.com/Vera-Novel-Carol-Edgarian/dp/1501157523

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Paul Vidich is an author and former senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. His first novel, An Honorable Man, a Publisher's Weekly top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016, was followed by The Good Assassin and The Coldest Warrior. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Lit Hub, The Nation, CrimeReads, and elsewhere.

Paul's newest novel, THE MERCENARY, is in stores now!

https://www.amazon.com/Mercenary-Novel-Paul-Vidich/dp/1643136208

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Jim Bloom's career in the movie and entertainment industries began when he worked with George Lucas on "American Graffiti". Soon after he became an assistant director working alongside many noted filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola on "The Conversation", Robert Altman on "Thieves Like Us", Sam Peckinpah on "The Killer Elite", Steven Spielberg on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Hal Ashby on "Bound for Glory" and "Coming Home", Mathew Robbins on "Corvette Summer", and Phil Kaufman on "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He rejoined George Lucas to become an Associate Producer on "The Empire Strikes Back" and the first General Manager of ILM. Following this he became a co-Producer on "Return of the Jedi". He produced "Warning Sign" for 20th Century Fox, and "Fires Within", directed by Gillian Armstrong, at MGM. He has also developed movies with Carroll Ballard, Volker Schlondorf, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro. In addition to being a producer, Jim worked as a creative executive at Sony Pictures, leading development and production of two business units: IMAX 3D movies ("Across the Sea of Time" and "Wings of Courage", directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud); and interactive movies. He also worked at Electronic Arts where he was recruited to help leverage EA entertainment properties into EA-TV (an interactive television venture). He later helped found an interactive games company with lead funding from Kleiner Perkins.

Jim Bloom's career in the movie and entertainment industries began when he worked with George Lucas on "American Graffiti". Soon after he became an assistant director working alongside many noted filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola on "The Conversation", Robert Altman on "Thieves Like Us", Sam Peckinpah on "The Killer Elite", Steven Spielberg on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Hal Ashby on "Bound for Glory" and "Coming Home", Mathew Robbins on "Corvette Summer", and Phil Kaufman on "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He rejoined George Lucas to become an Associate Producer on "The Empire Strikes Back" and the first General Manager of ILM. Following this he became a co-Producer on "Return of the Jedi". He produced "Warning Sign" for 20th Century Fox, and "Fires Within", directed by Gillian Armstrong, at MGM. He has also developed movies with Carroll Ballard, Volker Schlondorf, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro. In addition to being a producer, Jim worked as a creative executive at Sony Pictures, leading development and production of two business units: IMAX 3D movies ("Across the Sea of Time" and "Wings of Courage", directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud); and interactive movies. He also worked at Electronic Arts where he was recruited to help leverage EA entertainment properties into EA-TV (an interactive television venture). He later helped found an interactive games company with lead funding from Kleiner Perkins.

Adalyn Grace is a New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth, which was named “2020’s biggest YA fantasy” by Entertainment Weekly. Prior to becoming an author, Adalyn spent four years working in live theatre, acted as the managing editor of a nonprofit newspaper, and studied storytelling as an intern on Nickelodeon Animation’s popular series The Legend of Korra. Local to San Diego, Adalyn spends her non-writing days by watching too much anime, and by playing video games with her dorky dog.

Adalyn's newest book, All the Tides of Fate, releases today, February 2nd!

https://www.amazon.com/Tides-Fate-Stars-Teeth-Duology/dp/1250307813/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Tiffany is a writer and director originally from Cashmere, Washington. She's won both the prestigious Disney ABC writing fellowship and a Sony TV Diverse Directing Fellowship. She wrote the feature adaptation of Nancy Drew for Warner Brothers, and her sequel to the classic Adventures In Babysitting was nominated for both DGA and Imagen awards. Her first original short The Swan won Best Picture at the LA Live Score Film Festival, and was an official selection at Palm Springs International. In 2019 Tiffany wrote two original features, Turkey Drop for Freeform; and Holidate for Netflix and McG/Wonderland, for which she also served as Executive Producer.

Holidate is now streaming on Netflix:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81034553

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Jay Faerber is a critically-acclaimed comic book and television writer. Currently he is a writer for The CW TV series Supergirl. He is also known for co-creating and writing such comic book series as Elsewhere, Copperhead, Noble Causes, Dynamo 5, and Near Death at Image Comics, and has worked on such iconic titles as Generation X, X-Men, and New Warriors for Marvel Comics, and The Titans and Green Lantern for DC Comics. He was also a writer for the TV series Star-Crossed and Zoo.

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Barbara Bottner is a New York Times bestselling author. Since growing up in the 1960s Bronx, Barbara has had a hand in almost every aspect of book publishing. She has written and illustrated over 50 books for children, has reviewed books for major trade and consumer publications such as The New York Times, has published short stories and essays in national newspapers and magazines, has written written sitcoms and screenplays, and has been teaching writing and illustrating in major institutions, including UCLA, Otis Parsons, and the University of Miami since 1973. Barbara’s first young adult novel since the 1980s, I AM HERE NOW, just released in August and is on sale now.

Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, both fiction and non-fiction and has been the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life since the magazine's first issue in 1994. Her newest book is Speed of Life, which received starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Booklist. The New York Times Book Review called it "perceptive, funny and moving." About Ava and Pip, the New York Times Book Review said, "This is a book about sisterhood, but also a love letter to language." Carol has been on Today, CNN, Oprah, and The View and teaches writing at the New York Society Library. She’s also big on cats, walking, skiing, and art museums. Her husband, Rob Ackerman, a playwright who has done props for the SNL film unit for 25 years, was previously on the show. Carol published 3 personal essays in 2020, “Book Club With My Husband”, “Why My App Is So Very Proud of Me”, and “How I Finally Finally Finally became a Novelist”, which can all be found on her website.

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Danny Rubin is a screenwriter and playwright. He co-wrote with Harold Ramis the screenplay for Groundhog Day, for which the two received a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He received a B.A. in biology from Brown University and a M.A. in radio, television, and film from Northwestern University. Danny has taught screenwriting at numerous universities and lectured on the topic at academic conferences since 1995. He was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard University.

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ararat, Snowblind, Dead Ringers, and Of Saints and Shadows, among many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Chris is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities. His new novel, RED HANDS (released December 8th through St. Martins Press), is a part of the Ben Walker series which has been optioned by AGC for television development.

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Joy Gorman Wettels is a partner and producer at Anonymous Content focused on social impact content for women and youth. She’s also the executive producer of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark, and the feature films Seeking a Friend For the End of the World and The Meddler.

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