Your Mom Writes Books

This week Charlie and Caitlyn discuss how to write stories that don't involve saving the world, while touching on how to escalate personal stakes to add oomph to any tale.

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How do you choose the best protagonist for your next project? Charlie and Caitlyn talk about choosing the right personality for a story and differentiating characters from book to book.

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Your book is drafted. Done. Great. Now what? Caitlyn and Charlie discuss options for diving into your first round of revisions. One of them doesn't use spellcheck. 

Added bonus: a rant about movie sequels.

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All books need research, but where does one start? Join Charlie and Caitlyn as they talk primary vs secondary resources, juvenile nonfiction, and ChatGPT.

Link to the colonial occupations website: https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/occupation.html#S

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Almost a part 2 to the "The Female Gaze and Fantasy" episode, Charlie and Caitlyn dive into the erasure of female characters over the age of 30 in [predominantly fantasy] fiction, age gaps, and female authors being relegated to the YA book category.

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Today Caitlyn and Charlie talk all things horror with someone who has much more experience in the genre than they do. What exactly IS horror, and how does one go about crafting a horror novel? Tune in to find out!

If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, please go to charlienholmberg.com/podcast (or check out the link in our Instagram bio @yourmomwritesbooks).

Welcome to season 4! Today Charlie and Caitlyn plot a book using prompts from YOU. The dice choose the plot twists, and we have to make it work. Who are our heroes? Will they achieve HEROIC THINGS? Tune in to find out.

Many thanks to those who have helped cushion our editing costs! If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, please go to charlienholmberg.com/podcast (or check out the link in our Instagram bio @yourmomwritesbooks).

If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, please go to charlienholmberg.com/podcast (or check out the link in our Instagram bio @yourmomwritesbooks).

Season 3 finale! Today we’re doing our Ask Me Anything, with questions from you! Among today’s topics are the cover-art process, whatever happened with the book Charlie and Caitlyn cowrote, why word count does (or doesn’t) matter, and aggressive T poses.

Season 4 will air in two weeks! Thank you to everyone who has donated, shared, and reviewed our podcast. This wouldn’t be possible without you!

If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, you can do so at charlienholmberg.com/podcast

If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, please go to charlienholmberg.com/podcast (or check out the link in our Instagram bio @yourmomwritesbooks).

Conventions and conferences are great way to netwwork and hone your writing skills! What the difference between them? What should you bring? How do you handle agent and editor pitches? HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU SHOWER?? Tune in to find out!

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Because Charlie didn't clarify: SFWA is the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Because Charlie can't remember anything to save her life: She attended WriteOnCon in 2019 XD

If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, please go to charlienholmberg.com/podcast (or check out the link in our Instagram bio @yourmomwritesbooks).

Happy New Year! Today Charlie and Caitlyn make assumptions about the publishing industry, where it's heading, and how it may (or may not) change.

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EXTRA GOSSIP: After we recorded this, Brandon Sanderson posted a blog talking about Audible and how it treats authors. Recommended read! https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2022/

If you would like to donate to Your Mom Writes Books, please go to charlienholmberg.com/podcast (or check out the link in our Instagram bio @yourmomwritesbooks).