We cover so much in today's #badass bonus interview with multi-genre author Phil M. Williams!
- why people keep turning pages
- relatability with the good, bad, and ugly in people
- inspiration behind his thrillers
- running a permaculture farm and writing a children’s book about it
- teaching children through books
- the benefits of gardening for writers
- writing authentic sociopathic characters
- the one trait that all sociopaths share
- the book that can help a writer understand how a sociopath operates
- using personal experience to enhance the realism of fiction
- having empathy for where you’re drawing story inspiration from
- the hero archetype and how to get it right
- his drafting process
- the publishing process
- marketing as an author
- using Kindle Vella
- Stanley Milgram experiments and how they inspired one of his books
- his new thrillers coming out
- advice to writers re: one genre or multi-genres
Follow Phil on Twitter @PhilWBooks, Instagram @philwilliamsauthor, and his website at www.philwbooks.com. The book he mentions that's an excellent resource for learning how sociopaths operate is The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.
Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes @_badasswriters @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. On IG, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites @badasswriters_podcast @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. Her websites are www.kathleenfoxx.com www.foxxeditorial.com and www.moodpitch.org
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