The Lively Grind Cafe

Today on the podcast, Lisa and Chloe talk about canoes (the elements in your manuscript that just don’t belong). Language warning.   Stuff we mentioned today: Antonya Nelson Andre Dubus Lighthouse Writers Workshop JKS Communications Sesame Street Body and Bone by LS Hawker Chelsey Emmelhainz Apollo 13 The Drowning Game by LS Hawker Aaron Sorkin Dan Brown Chelsey Emmelhainz Deep Work by Cal Newport Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Music from https://filmmusic.io: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod “Daily Beetle” by Kevin MacLeod Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Today on the podcast, Lisa and Chloe talk about what you don’t know that you need to know. Language warning.   Stuff we mentioned today: Angie Hodapp, Director of Literary Development at Nelson Literary Agency Lisa’s article about beta readers on Writers Digest Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder Way of the Writer by Charles Johnson Chelsey Emmelhainz Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Waitress Anna Quindlen I Know You Know by Gilly MacMillan Digital Minimalism and Deep Work by Cal Newport Imogen Heap Northern Colorado Writers Conference The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Throwaways by LS Hawker Avengers: Endgame (*Spoiler alert* from 34:51 – 35:45) The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Stardust by Neil Gaiman Anne Tyler The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (audiobook narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda) Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Music from https://filmmusic.io: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod “Daily Beetle” by Kevin MacLeod Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Today on the podcast, Lisa and Chloe talk about flow state and other things. Language warning.   Stuff we mentioned today: Axis 360 Lump and Blood of 7 by Claire L. Fishback Nine Perfect Strangers Confidential The Kiss Quotient Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear To Shake the Sleeping Self Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook

In case you missed it, Chloe recorded audio from the Q&A session at THE THROWAWAYS Denver Release Event at the Aspen Grove Tattered Cover store on January 26. We had nearly 100 people and almost sold out their stock of TT paperbacks, landing me at the #1 spot on the Denver Post local fiction paperback bestseller list.     Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook

Today on the podcast, Lisa explains about THE THROWAWAYS (release date: January 22, 2019), The Vanishing Point Press Ltd., and the exhausting process of bringing a book baby into the world outside of traditional publishing.   Stuff we mentioned today: The Good Place Jack Ryan The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel The Office Lizard Lounge Poetry Night Vellum Reedsy JKS Communications Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook

Harvard Law School Parody Show Chloe as the Draco Malfoy character in 2017’s Harry Palsgraf in Fantastic Briefs and Where to File Them.         Stuff we mentioned today: HLS Parody Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook

Interview We met Chelsey Emmelhainz, Senior Editor at Crooked Lane Books, at Stella’s Coffee Shop in Denver for some catching up and industry talk.         Stuff we mentioned today: Chelsey Emmelhainz Quills Conference Crooked Lane Books   Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook

Thrillerfest 2018! No LS Hawker today…only Chloe got to go to Thrillerfest this year. Here’s her recap of Craftfest Day 1 as well as an interview with prolific, versatile, and renowned author Susan Furlong.       Stuff we mentioned today: Susan Furlong Jon Land Kathleen Antrim R.L. Stein Walter Mosley Steve Berry Donald Maass The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz The Breakout Novelist by Donald Maass The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass   Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

This podcast comes to you not from our usual cafe but from the road, on our way home from the 2018 Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Pikes Peak Writers Laurell K. Hamilton Mary Robinette Kowal Jason Evans Jennie Marts Darby Karchut Story Grid Jim Gaffigan DIY MFA – Gabriela Pereira       Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: Cell by Stephen King Laurel K Hamilton Disappointed Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert The Marshall Plan by Evan Marshall All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Caught Up in a Cowboy by Jennie Marts Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies by Sol Stein Wicked River Jenny Milchman   Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Giveaway to celebrate NaNoWriMo: If you win NaNoWriMo, send me a link to your profile on the NaNo website showing that you’ve completed your 50,000 words and finished, and I’ll send you an autographed copy of one of my published novels for free! Stuff we mentioned today: National Novel Writing Month No Plot? No Problem! Chris Baty Lemony Snicket’s Pep Talk Ready, Set, Novel! Chris Baty, Lindsey Grant, Tavia Stewart NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program A Soft Murmur online sound machine Story Grid Nano podcast Write or Die productivity site The 30-Day Novel Lynn Johnston Jami Gold’s worksheets McSweeney’s Bestselling books that started as Nanovels “I Will Not Bow” Breaking Benjamin Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Save the Cat Blake Snyder The War of Art Steven Pressfield Will and Grace #nanowrimo #nanowrimo2017 #amwriting #nanoprep Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: Bull Durham Secrets of Story Matt Bird Northern Colorado Writers Grant Blackwood Speak Louisa Hall How to write good legal stuff Mike Birbiglia Paramount Theatre Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: Harvard Law School Parody Illumify Michael F. Haspil Marc Graham Lighthouse Writers Workshop Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers International Thriller Writers Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America  Grub Street Cambridge Writers Workshop Anthony Franze Don’t Try to Find Me Holly Brown Stolen Carey Baldwin The Mystics of Mile End Sigal Samuel Private Citizens Tony Tulathimutte The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: Laura McHugh, author of WEIGHT OF BLOOD and ARROWOOD Carey Baldwin, USA Today bestselling thriller author Alex Dolan, author of THE EUTHANIST and THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA Come From Away Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne The Secrets of Story by Matt Bird Story Engineering by Larry Brooks CHLOE HAWKER, WRITER. BOOK WIZARD. FUTURE LAWYER. Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: END OF THE ROAD by LS Hawker To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling After Anna by Alex Lake Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Fallen by Lauren Kate Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay Real Plans Moana Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Apologies for the first five minutes of the recording–the audio is badly synched. Skip to 5:50 to listen to the rest of it. Stuff we mentioned today: Presbicia Aesop’s Fables Polly’s Pancake Palace Bonfire of the Vanities Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy X-Men Magneto The Godfather Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris Sweeney Todd James Bond The Incredibles The Dresden Files Jim Butcher Under the Dome Stephen King Mean Streak Sandra Brown Spy Kids 3D Save the Cat Blake Snyder Arrowood Laura McHugh One Dead, Two to Go Elena Hartwell Razor Girl Carl Hiaasen A Necessary End Holly Brown The Couple Next Door Shari Lapena The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert The Perfect Girl Gilly Macmillan What She Knew Gilly Macmillan The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: Final episode Star Trek: Next Generation The Awakening by Kate Chopin Million Dollar Baby Jacob’s Ladder How I Met Your Mother Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 1984 by George Orwell Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott Eragon by Christopher Paolini Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis Peeps by Scott Westerfeld The Giver by Lois Lowry Seinfeld Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: Run You Down by Julia Dahl Checklist for Murder by Anthony Flacco The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty Dru’s Book Musings Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)

Stuff we mentioned today: @chloechristine21 Instagram The Law School Diaries: Moving In PantryCheck Pomotodo EveryDollar The Unprocrastination Challenge September Dropkick Murphys Pandora station Marc Graham, author The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty Email us at LivelyGrindCafe@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @LivelyGrindCafe Like us on Facebook Call us on GoogleVoice: 412-22-write (412-229-7483)