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Ep. 025: Janine Bajus


timthumbJanine Bajus is an internationally known Fair Isle knitter, designer, and teacher. Her goal is to provide the information that people need to knit their own stranded garments, whether traditional or wild, subdued or saturated, from a pattern or self-designed. Her hands-on workshops in custom color knitting are known for Janine’s unstoppable can-do attitude and step-by-step methods. Her book, The Joy of Color, is available now!

Craft Tip: Having a foam board with Post-it notes helped me move forward and see where the gaps were.
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Ep. 024: Tien Chiu

tien-chiu-headshotTien Chiu is a weaver, a dyer and a couture seamstress. She’s also a writer. In addition to writing articles for Handwoven and Complex Weavers Journal, she’s written a gorgeous book, titled Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work, which has just come out from Schiffer Publishing. 

Craft Tip: The best way to brainstorm is to sit down, write all your ideas on Post-its, and stick them on the wall. Then you rearrange them on the wall until they make sense.

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Tien Chiu talks about her writing process with Rachael Herron on the How Do You Write podcast.

 

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Ep. 023: J. Thorn


jthornpicJ. Thorn has published over one million words and has sold more than 170,000 books worldwide. He is an official, active member of the Horror Writers Association and a member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. J. is a contributor to disinformation.com and a staff writer for HeavyPlanet.net as well as a founding board member of the Author Marketing Institute. He earned a B.A. in American History from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.A. from Duquesne University. He has spent the last twenty years researching mysticism and the occult in colonial American history.

 

Craft Tip: The last thing I do before I go to bed is put a few bullet points into the document for the scene I’m going to write the next morning. I let my brain sort of  chew on that overnight. It never fails. In the morning, there’s something there.

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J. Thorn talks about his writing process on Rachael Herron's How Do You Write podcast.

 

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Ep. 022: Greta Beekhuis


unnamedGreta Beekhuis is an author, knitter of complex mathematical equations, word nerd, physics junkie, voracious reader, and open wheel racer. Her first novel was recently released, Remembering the Way: A novel about a life in science.

Craft Tip: Research, research, research. The science in my books has to be real.

 

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Greta Beekhuis talks about her writing process on the podcast How Do You Write?

 

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Ep. 021: Grant Faulkner


img_0469-300x225Grant 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.

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Lee Child on creating suspense in the NYT. 

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Grant and Buster, writing

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Rachael and Dozy, writing

 

 

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Ep. 020: Holly Robinson

dsc_3777-680x1024-199x300Novelist, 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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