Ep132: Your Story Starts Here, with Mary Carroll Moore

October 4, 2023 Valerie Ihsan

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I'm in a new anthology by Tsunami Press with my essay "Eye Contact." You can preorder at http://www.tsunamibooks.org/shop/pre-order-tsunami-press-first-anthology Due out the beginning of October 2023.
Preorder of Season of the Shadow up now. (Erick's new title.) Nov 16th.

Patron announcement:

UPDATE:

Valerie:
speaking at conference this weekend
Becca Syme's 30 for 30 this month
Nanowrimo in November (Erick is too!)

Erick:
working on little things; short stories, etc
mostly moved in; need to unpack now

Just finished:

I'M READING: beta read

Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

Harness: A Systemic Approach: Guaranteed to Revolutionize Your Coaching by Tess Cope

Up Next: What's a Poor Girl to Do?: Prostitution in Mid-Nineteenth Century America by Elizabeth A. Topping

Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the the Early West by Anne Seagraves

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

Erick's Reading:
BearTown by Fredrick Backman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphic novels series

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (brilliant with characterization, story within a story, three sisters)

Show Notes:

Mary Carroll Moore is a bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books in 3 genres, including thePEN/Faulkner-and Lambda Literary Awards nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light, the prequel to A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards “Reader’s Choice” award. Before moving into fiction, she worked as a chef, a cooking-school owner, a cookbook author, and a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a JuliaChild/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.

Storyboarding for Novelists idea.

Snippets = islands; Work on islands for 30K words, then create structure map, W method (Joseph Campbell)

Warm up is first four chapters (Mary)

Title exercise: find fifteen titles on the internet that you like, and why you like them, and then make your own list of fifteen titles.

Kirkus Review is paid promotion.

Independent Book Review

Publisher's Weekly

Book List

Newsletter on Substack.

IG Blogger tour. (Bookstagrammer)

Google Bookstagram Tour Guide

Cover Reveal.