Archives for October 2016

Grant Faulkner was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He earned a B.A. in English from Grinnell College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. In 2011, Faulkner  co-founded 100 Word Story, an online literary journal that publishes stories that are exactly 100 words long. In 2012, he became Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), taking over from founder Chris Baty (who can be heard on Episode 15). He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the writer Heather Mackey, and their two children.

Shownotes: 

Lee Child on creating suspense in the NYT. 

Dog Lap Desks: 

Grant and Buster, writing

Rachael and Dozy, writing

 

 

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Novelist, journalist and celebrity ghost writer Holly Robinson is the author of the memoir The Gerbil farmer’s Daughter and many novels including most recently Folly Cove, from Penguin.  Her articles and essays appear frequently in The Huffington Post, More, Parents, Redbook and dozens of other newspapers and magazines. She and her husband have five children and a stubborn Pekingese. They divide their time between Massachusetts and Prince Edward Island, and are crazy enough to be fixing up old houses one shingle at a time in both places.

Craft Tip: Read your dialogue aloud and eliminate as many of the “He saids” and “She saids” as you possibly can. Communicate that with the business on the stage.

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Larissa Brown writes books – about Vikings and about knitting – as well as creating designs for hand knitters. She writes historical, romantic, time travel fiction set in a fictional world in the White Woods of Iceland’s 10th century. Her first novel was Beautiful Wreck and her second novel just launched and is called So Wild a Dream. She lives in Portland with her husband and son.

Craft Tip: You already know what to do. You know what you should be writing.

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Julia Skott is a journalist and writer in Sweden. She’s published two non-fiction books called Body Panic and Shut Up I’m Counting. She also produces podcasts about knitting and romance literature and is working on a novel or two.

Craft Tip: Change the way you look at your work. Change the font, say the words out loud. You’ll suddenly see all your tics.

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