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Nanda Reddy talks about: 

Deadlines and focus 

Manuscripts in drawers

Querytracker 

critiquematch.com

Accepting previously rejected parts of ourselves as part of the process of writing fiction 

Assimilation 

Belonging

Identity 

BookPage review by Stephanie Harrison 

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Elyse Durham talks about: 

Remaining open and flexible in the process 

Following your fascinations 

Focusing 

Most adorable book deal celebration 

Ballet, Greek Orthodoxy, and the body 

Historical fiction 

Writer to agent AWP 

Alison Hunter Trellis Literary 

Cameos from Brianna's kiddo Andy (he would like you to know that he DOESN'T have candy) 

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Emily J. Smith talks about: 

Graphing plot points and clues 

That whole job/money/housing/social class/art tangle 

Validation, connection, tech, and writing 

Bouncing back from failure

Bringing an engineer mindset to writing and bringing a tech mindset to publishing 

"Prestige thrillers" 

Writing friends 

Interesting theory about relative challenges of agents and editors

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Olufunke covers: 

- Tin House 

-The importance of the relationships in the process of publishing your work 

-Elizabeth Demeo (editor) 

-Danya (agent) 

-What makes her a 'real' writer 

- Savoring 

-How good feedback can shift your relationship with your own writing 

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In this episode, Lidia talks about 

-story-telling space as a magical shape-shifting place of healing and growth

-how to talk to yourself when your writing is lousy

- pillow forts 

- creative coping strategies

-being trained to retell the same story 

-how we and our stories change over time 

-writing a fable from something that happened to you 

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Why write 'bad' characters? Why write 'bad' female characters? 
Being patient and having faith 
The line between good and evil exists within every man 
Stephen King and kinds of fear 
It Follows directed by David Robert Mitchell (film about sexually transmitted haunting!) 
Dracula 
Picture of Dorian Gray 
(please excuse my terrible pronunciation of 'macabre'!!! )

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Along the way, Erika covers:
Pacing
Best moment of the book making process
Editing that works with an author's vision
Adrian Tchaikovsky and Service Model
Atria (publisher)
Michelle Brower (agent)
Loan Le editor 
Icky-post-pub emails 
Treadmill desk

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Season 4! Coming up!

You'll hear from 
Erika Swyler
Emily J Smith
Deesha Philyaw
Lidia Yuknavitch
Susan Barker
Nicole Graev Lipson
Jennie Case
Emma Pattee
Elyse Durham
Shubha Sunder
Dori Lumpkin
Sasha Hom
Cally Fiedorek
Libby Maxey
Grace Bankole
Nanda Reddy
Wayne Scott

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In this episode, Yael Goldstein-Love talks about The Possibilities.

We cover:
Heretic barbies
Putting away ten years of work on a manuscript (possibly the best thing you've ever written)
'A genteel form of homeless'
Genre and its discontents
Feedback and recognizing a need for a POV shift in a draft
How women are socialized to prioritize others' perceptions of them
Benefits of a really great editor
How publication can shift you out of your richest creative mode
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Elle Everhart talks about Hot Summer. Along the way, Elle covers: 

Hinge
A particular kind of single parenting experience
The most dangerous writing app
Writing as a way to try on alternative selves
Collaborating with agent and editor on a contracted second book
Romance novels
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin 
(My dog Pretzel makes an appearance.)
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