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Today is a special day in literary history! Listen to a new brief segment on the pod: This Day in Literary History! Then, catch Kat's convo with author Mark Schorr about:

• His path to writing
• Drawing from real-life experiences
• Research
• Going “incognito” to do internet searches
• How federally-funded ESP experiments in the 1970s inspired his newest novel, The Mastermind
• Getting nominated for an Edgar Award for his first book, Red Diamond Private Eye
• The process of nominations and picking an Edgar winner
• Getting followed and questioned by the FBI
• The entire process of having novels optioned for film (and the payment that comes with it!)
• What he’s working on next
• Advice for writers
• Boiling your book down to one word!

Connect with Mark on Twitter @schorrm and on his website at markschorr.com

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

If you're interested in being a guest on the show, please fill out this form. Please note interview bookings are now full until mid-August 2023.

Submit a question to the podcast: click here.

Recommend a book or give a shoutout to someone who helped you immensely or to your readers in general: record a short voice memo and email it to badasswriters@kathleenfoxx.com, and I'll air it on the pod! More details on my website here.

Submit an interesting literary fact for This Day in Literary History: click here.

Music credits: Intro and Exit music and in between segments is Bathtime Funk by All Good Folks (uppbeat.io). Music during This Day in Literary History: A Ten-Course Banquet by David Celeste (epidemicsound.com)