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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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