Writing in Real Life

Ep. 069: The One where They’re Alone in the House

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Leia discovers the curse of imagination. A lovely email from a friend. Working on spec: Should you? When? Why? “Money flows to the writer.” Find the mistake in The Secret Sea and win a prize! Morgan guests on another podcast — shock! Horror!

Pretend Play | What to Expect

Separation Anxiety

Why swearing is good for you — Quartz

Rejection, Part 14 - News From MENews From ME

Writer Beware®: The Blog: PublishAmerica Is Now America Star Books

The Secret Sea | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Pete Hautman - Home

Barry and Pete Hautmann commiserate on errors in their books

Barry regrets an idea he didn’t use in Bang

Folklore.org: Real Artists Ship

Morgan on All the Social Ladies podcast

Telling the Right Stories at the Right Time - Forbes

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Ep. 068: The One where Leia Drops the F-Bomb

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Leia burns up. Barry has a long talk with himself. Morgan asks the audience for advice. The power of positive thinking turns out to backfire. Do you lose yourself as a person when you become a parent? Cursing around your children: Great idea or greatest idea?

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Thinking positive is a surprisingly risky manoeuvre | Aeon Essays

"I Learned It By Watching You" Anti-Drug PSA - YouTube

Barry tweets about Leia's first word possibly being f*ck

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Ep. 067: The One with Another One on the Way

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Barry and Morgan (and Leia!) survive their move! Barry surrenders to day care, with plenty of guilt. A rant about professionalism. Giving up on a manuscript. New projects for Morgan and Barry.

Eugene’s comment on Leia’s sleeping and baby nightmares

Pregnancy Brain: Myth or Reality?

On Being an Aging Children’s Writer - Just Thinking

Morgan Recommends: The Diviners by Libba Bray | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Morgan is Reading: Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Morgan is Also Reading: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Barry is Reading: In the After by Demitria Lunetta | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

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Ep. 066: The One Right Before the Move

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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The Orlando shooting, bad conference experiences, home improvement woes, and a baby that won’t sleep. Also: Barry and Morgan each start working on new projects!

Orlando nightclub shooting: Read about the victims - Orlando Sentinel

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

WubbaNub | WubbaNub Infant Pacifiers

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Ep. 065: The One with Melissa

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Special guest Melissa Walker (UNBREAK MY HEART, LET’S PRETEND WE NEVER MET) fills in for Morgan! We discuss different ways of getting published, writing with more than one kid, and how writing a book doesn’t prepare you for the next one. Plus: On spec vs. proposal, and the horror of ranking.

Melissa’s website

Carolyn Mackler

Doug Stewart at Sterling Lord

Sassy magazine

Episode 20: The One where Leia Goes to a Bar Mitzvah (and we talk about the value of twenty minutes)

Pomodoro Technique

Batcave - DC Database - Wikia

Barry’s Goodreads rank (scroll down to "Average Rating")

Sale on Unbreak My Heart ebook! | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks

Melissa Recommends: What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Melissa Also Recommends: The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Barry Recommends: When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

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Ep. 064: The One where They’re Moving

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Familiarity breeds contempt…for your own book. Sensitivity readers. You can’t make everybody happy. Leia reverses her position on sleep. And a big announcement.

Barry’s tweet about hating his book

Sensitivity Readers — Writing in the Margins

4 out of 5 dentists...

Bizarro World

Growing Pains Episode #150: "There Must Be a Pony"

SCBWI New Jersey | 2016 June Conference

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Ep. 063: The One with Sensible Screentime

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Morgan damns Barry with faint praise. Mornings! Showers! Is the “limit your kid’s screentime” notion an anti-feminist plot? Barry’s theory that multiple TVs lead to divorce. Plus, Morgan preps for her first writing conference…and makes a soul-searching confession.

This Mom Is Extraordinarily Tired Of Making Dinner

The debate over screen time is really about moms, not kids.

Appliances and their impact: the ownership of domestic technology and time spent on household work

Bitch Sesh: A Real Housewives Breakdown by Earwolf on iTunes

SCBWI New Jersey | 2016 June Conference

Goodreads | Claudia and the Sad Good-bye (The Baby-sitters Club, #26) by Ann M. Martin (This is the book where Claudia's grandmother dies.)

ASU | The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

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Ep. 062: The One with Eight Followers, Maybe Twelve

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Morgan is obsessed with Snapchat. Follow-up on programming your brain and baby paranoia. Leia climbs on a truck. Vacations are good. New ideas for stories! The scourge of outlining. Morgan publishes an essay. Pitching vs. blogging. The frustration of being ignored by editors and agents.

This 10-Minute Routine Will Increase Your Clarity And Creativity — Life Learning — Medium

Melissa Walker

Episode 61: The One without a Daddy Blogosphere

Imperious Leader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Writing in Real Life — Episode 35: The One with No Baby

The Weekend Novelist by Robert Ray | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks

Morgan's piece on Hello, Giggles: I bought a bunch of ~vintage~ teen magazines on eBay to relive my teenage years

Morgan’s HuffPo piece: How to Get Married at Work

Morgan’s Pop Matters piece: Reflections on Tori Amos and the Feminist Movement | PopMatters

Morgan’s blog

Contract delays: Writing in Real Life — Episode 60: The One with Sylvia Plath on Zoloft

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Ep. 061: The One without a Daddy Blogosphere

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Does a debut have to be big? Guess what: Your sales aren’t determined by the quality of your book. Are celebrity memoirs worth the massive cost? Morgan has opinions about Captain America: Civil War. The (missing) narrative of the Stay-At-Home Dad.

Debut novels: Why new authors are making millions | EW.com

Mad Men - Don breaks up with Dr. Faye Miller over the phone - YouTube "I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things."

Captain America: Civil War

Black Panther

The Great Darkness Saga

Earth-1/Earth-2

What It’s Like When a Stay-at-Home Dad Goes Back to Work

Mr. Mom

Three Men and a Baby

Daddy Day Care

Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared? - The New York Times

Barry is Reading: Plastic Man by Kyle Baker | Amazon (Vol.1) | Amazon (Vol. 2) | Comixology

Morgan Recommends: Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

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Ep. 060: The One with Sylvia Plath on Zoloft

Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

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Leia visits the doctor three times in four days. Revisiting Lyga’s Law of Publishing: Barry signs a contract and explains why it takes so long. Science says: writers and psychotics are the same. (Morgan disagrees.) Don’t be a jerk on the internet. Morgan psyches out Barry. Barry goes nuts over a new book.

Writing in Real Life — Episode 33: The One with Royalties

The Neurological Similarities Between Successful Writers And The Mentally Ill | Thought Catalog

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Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract - YouTube

When You Become The Person You Hate On The Internet : All Tech Considered : NPR

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life - The New York Times

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Morgan Recommends: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

24 Things No One Tells You About Book Publishing

Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ - The New York Times

Sittenfeld’s response: So Eligible got a solidly bad review from The... - Curtis Sittenfeld

Internationally Bestselling Author Tess Gerritsen

Barry Recommends: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound

Do parents have a special talent for writing for kids? From our very first episode! -- Writing in Real Life — Episode 1: The One that Came First

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