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Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Scott Shepherd, author, producer and show-runnerScott Shepherd is a veteran writer/producer/show-runner with years of experience running network series; his production and screenwriting credits include The Equalizer, Miami Vice, The Outer Limits, Haven, and Quantum Leap. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, he currently teaches television writing at the University of Texas in Austin.
His books include Should I Fall (2022) and The Last Commandment (2021) (part of the Austin Grant series), The Seventh Day (2013) and Descending Son (2014).
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In...2025-07-2356 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for July 2025
Just a few thoughts on the connection between freedom and writing.
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2025-07-0606 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … novelist and short story writer Gerry WilsonA seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson grew up in the red clay hills of the north that she writes about in her debut novel, THAT PINSON GIRL, released by Regal House Publishing in February 2024.
A story, “Tell Me Anything,” appeared in Persimmon Tree in June 2024. Another story, “A Language of Their Own,” was runner-up for The Porch Fiction Prize 2024. “Life Line” was a finalist in December magazine’s Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction and was published in december in the spring of 2023.
Her short fiction has appeared in numerous other journals. Gerry is also a 2025 Mississ...2025-06-181h 04Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for June 2025
Just a few thoughts on why we must continually redefine how we define writing success for ourselves.
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2025-06-0408 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Aime Austin, author
Aime Austin is the author of the Casey Cort and Nicole Long Series of legal thrillers. She is also the host of the podcast, A Time to Thrill.
When she’s not writing crime fiction or interviewing brilliant creators for her podcast, she’s in a yoga pose, knitting, or reading. Aime splits her time between Los Angeles and Budapest. Before turning to writing, Aime practiced family and criminal law in Cleveland, Ohio.
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In this conversation, we’ll be t...2025-05-2159 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for May 2025
Just a few thoughts on parenting ourselves and other writers as we travel together on our writing journey.
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2025-05-0905 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … David Allen Edmonds, authorDavid Allen Edmonds spent most of his working life teaching German at the high school and college levels. His summer jobs ranged from campaign manager to stay-at-home dad to track coach.
He co-wrote two educational TV series for the Cleveland PBS affiliate (WVIZ) and spent one summer in Hollywood on the writing staff of ABC-Paramount’s Out of the Blue, a spin-off of Mork and Mindy.
Teaching remained his first love, and his experiences in the classroom form the setting for his ‘Joe Lehrer’ suspense novels, Personal Pronouns and Indirect Objects. During COVID his writing took a...2025-04-2349 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for April 2025
Just a few thoughts on finding the courage to write and finding courage in what we write.
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2025-04-0605 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … John Amos, authorJohn Amos is the author of four novels: The Student, The Cleopatra Caper, The Case of the Stolen Goddess and The Bones of the Apostle as well as academic publications that include several books and multiple articles.
He holds a PhD and a JD and has taught at university level for 25 years. John has lived in the Middle East, most notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, and Turkey, and currently practices Law.
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In this conversation, we talk about exploring new...2025-03-1941 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for March 2025Just a few thoughts on how we, as writers, can make a difference in the world, one word at a time.
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2025-03-0705 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Liza Nash Taylor, authorLiza Nash Taylor is the author of Etiquette for Runaways and In All Good Faith. The 2016 winner of the San Miguel Writers Conference Fiction Prize, her work has appeared in Microchondria II, Gargoyle Magazine, and Deep South, amongst others.
She was a 2018 Hawthornden International Fellow and received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. A native Virginian, she lives in Keswick with her husband and dogs.
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In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about the role of a...2025-02-1948 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for February 2025
Just a few thoughts on the important role libraries play in our communities.
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2025-02-0907 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for January 2025
Just a few thoughts on how choosing the right word or words for the year can guide us through 12 months of writing.
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2025-01-0804 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Megan Rogers, author Megan Rogers is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, former dance teacher and studio owner, and mother of three. A professional dancer, Megan is known for her performances with the NFL. She made a remarkable transition from the stage to the literary world with her hit children's book, Rosie Finds Her Shine.
Since its release, Megan has sold over 13,000 copies of her award-winning self-published book about Rosie, a reindeer from the North Pole who loves to dance.
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In this conversation...2024-12-1846 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for December 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to believe in the magic of writing.
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2024-12-0605 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D., authorDr. Kushin is the author of the coming-of-age novel Beware the Smart Kids. An award-winning professor, author, and scholar at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, he’s also the author of Teach Social Media: A Plan for Creating a Course Your Students Will Love, and writes Social Media Syllabus, a popular blog and resource tool for social media educators.
He is a senior fellow in the Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications, where he also serves on the board of advisors, and is passionate about creating a more civil and kinder world.
For more ab...2024-11-2051 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for November 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to take time just to breathe for creativity’s sake.
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2024-11-0304 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for October 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to feed our creative confidence with positive memories.
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2024-10-0903 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker who teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford.
She is the author of thirteen books, including the novels Ark and She Never Told Me About the Ocean, the memoir-in-essays Awake with Asashoryu, and the guidebook Edit Your Life—which was inspired by her 2019 TEDxBoise talk.
She co-edited the anthology What Doesn’t Kill Her: Women’s Stories of Resilience, which Gloria Steinem described as stories that “will help each of us to trust and tell our own.”
Elisabeth’s work with myth and memoir, the focus of...2024-09-1859 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for September 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to find our writing tribe.
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2024-09-0805 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Jeanne Blasberg, author and essayist
Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her first two novels, The Nine (released in 2019) and Eden (released in 2017), were both award winners, and the third in that trilogy, Daughter of a Promise, was just released this past April.
A Smith College graduate, Jeanne was named a Southampton Writer’s Conference BookEnds Fellow in April 2021. She is both a teacher of writing and a lifetime learner and co-chairs the board of the Boston Book Festival and serves on the Executive Committee of GrubStreet, one of the country’s preeminent creative writing centers.
2024-08-211h 02Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for August 2024
Just a few thoughts on how midlife can be our most creative stage—if we are open to it.
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2024-08-0907 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for July 2024
Just a few thoughts on how I realized that I needed to "unpack" my brain from one book project before I started another.
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2024-07-0705 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … author Delia Ephron Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter, essayist, and playwright. Her novels include the New York Times bestseller Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life that came out in 2022, Siracusa, and The Lion Is In, several essay collections, and books for children and young adults.
Her movie credits include You've Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, This is My Life, Michael, and Hanging Up. Her play, "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," written with her sister Nora Ephron (based on the book by Ilene Beckerman), ran for two years off Broadway and has been pe...2024-06-1245 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for June 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse “I’ve never done it” with “I can’t do it.”
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2024-06-0903 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Jonathan Lewis, writer and assemblage artist Jonathan Lewis writes microfiction travelogues which he shares freely at his website. Each 500-word story follows an international traveler as he explores the world and tries to better understand his place in it.
Now retired, Jonathan has had an eclectic career: California State Senate legislative staffer; art gallery owner; founder/CEO of a global social enterprise financing small businesses owned by low-income women; real estate developer; visiting professor at NYU and UC Berkeley. He has written one nonfiction book on social entrepreneurship. Jonathan is also an assemblage artist working with recycled materials.
For more about Jo...2024-05-221h 04Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for May 2024Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse creative dormancy with creative death.
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2024-05-1206 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Charlene Wexler, authorA native Chicagoan, Charlene Wexler has been a teacher, wife, dental office manager, mother and grandmother. In retirement, her lifelong passion for writing has led her to create several essays and novels. Her books include Murder on Skid Row, Milk and Oranges, Lori and Elephants In The Room.
Charlene’s newest book, Farewell To South Shore was released in 2024, and her next one, We Won't Go Back, is scheduled for 2025.
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In today’s conversation, we’ll be talkin...2024-04-1736 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for April 2024Just a few thoughts on why we can’t let our creativity be eclipsed by others or our own self-doubt.
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2024-04-0705 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Stephani Halleen Atkins (aka s.c.halleen), author Stephani Halleen Atkins, who writes under the name of s.c.halleen, describes herself as a recovering nonprofit founder, current grant writer, and the aspiring creator of a new form of reading: the SummerSnow multimedia serial story, which reads like an ebook but interweaves audio, image and film throughout the narrative.
In addition, she has written a novel, edited tv spec scripts, hosted a radio show, and presented a TEDx talk entitled “World in Uproar: How Stories, Not Facts, Will Save the Day.”
For more about Stephanie, visit her website and follow her on Instagram and...2024-03-2055 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for March 2024Just a few thoughts on why we have to believe that our creativity, like a garden bed, can produce results.
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2024-03-1003 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for February 2024Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t let milestone birthdays stop us in our creative tracks.
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2024-02-1804 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Eric Walker, authorAs an amateur genealogist and family historian, Eric Walker was impelled to write his debut novel Lost Souls Recovered when he discovered the richness of family stories through research of historical documents and those stories told to him by relatives.
As he read historical documents and talked to relatives, he envisioned a way to bring to life in fiction form many of his ancestors who lived a hardscrabble life and who worked to overcome hardship. Eric believes the written word can unlock doors as well as the imagination and unite our spirits through our visions.
...2024-01-1753 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for January 2024Just a few thoughts on why we need to do “different” to have “different.”
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2024-01-0704 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Michael Bourne, authorMichael Bourne is the author of Blithedale Canyon (Regal House, 2022). He is a long-time contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and he has written for the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, The Economist, Literary Hub, and Salon.
His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines including, most recently, december, The Southampton Review, and Tin House. Blithedale Canyon is his first novel. He grew up in Northern California and now lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and son.
For more about Michael, visit his website and follow him on Instagram (michaelrbourne...2023-12-2049 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for December 2023Just a few thoughts on the importance of being willing to make revisions: in writing and in life.
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2023-12-0605 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Molly Giles, authorMolly Giles is the award-winning author of six story collections and two novels. Rough Translations won The Flannery O’Connor Prize the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award.
Other notable accolades have been awarded from the Small Press Best Fiction Award for Creek Walk, which also earned a Commonwealth Silver Medal Award for Fiction, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Bothered won the Split Oak Press Flash Fiction Award; and All The Wrong Places won the Spokane Prize for Fiction.
Molly’s work has also earned The O. Henry Award...2023-11-2255 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for November 2023Just a few thoughts on why we need to take regular breaks to refresh and renew our creative spirit.
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2023-11-1003 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Gillian Felix, author and entrepreneurGillian Felix has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pencil, and as of this writing, she is the author of 10 books. She enjoys creating characters that could be your next-door neighbor, but would you want them as your neighbor is another story.
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Miss Felix moved to the United States in 1998. She has been involved in the entertainment industry for over ten years. She is trained in the Meisner and Stanislavski technique of acting, which she credits as an asset to her character development and writing.
Miss...2023-10-1856 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for October 2023Just a few thoughts on why our focus as authors should be on building relationships, not just on selling books.
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2023-10-0606 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Egyptologist Mary Ann Marazzi, PhDMary Ann Marazzi is an Egyptologist with a doctoral degree in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology/Egyptology, who has 27 years of experience working at archaeological sites in the US, Italy, and Egypt.
She has taught art history and world cultures at colleges and universities, edits academic journals and has written numerous articles for educational publications and children’s magazines.
For more about Mary Ann, visit her LinkedIn page.
In today’s conversation, we’ll talk about her work as an Egyptologist and how it is about discovery: what is found, what isn’t found (w...2023-09-2055 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for September 2023Just a few thoughts on why we need to put our money (and time) where our mouth is when it comes to our writing career.
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2023-09-0805 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for August 2023Just a few thoughts on why it’s important to pay attention when Opportunity knocks and then decide how to handle the summons.
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2023-08-1005 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Joyce Maynard, authorOver her fifty-year career, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard has published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir At Home in the World and the novels To Die For and Labor Day, both adapted for film.
Maynard’s newest novel, The Bird Hotel, was published May 2023. How the Light Gets In, the sequel to her novel, Count the Ways-- named an Amazon Best Book in 2021—will be published in spring, 2024.
Maynard is a fellow of Macdowell and Yaddo. Every winter for over two decades, she has...2023-07-1241 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for July 2023Just a few thoughts on why it’s important to learn to “enjoy the ride” when writing.
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2023-07-0503 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Cecelia Tichi, authorCecelia Tichi is the author of the “Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded Series,” mystery crime novels that pulse with turn-of-the-century American life…and death.
An award-winning author and Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University, her nonfiction and fiction books have focused on the decades of America's industrial titans, the "Queens" of Society and the U.S. Gilded Age. She enjoys membership and posting in Facebook’s The Gilded Age Society.
For more about Cecelia, visit her website and her Wikipedia page and follow her on Facebook.
In today’s conversati...2023-06-141h 00Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for June 2023Just a few thoughts on why writers need a personal manifesto to keep them on track.
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2023-06-0706 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Deborah Kalb, authorDeborah Kalb is the author of the forthcoming adult novel Off to Join the Circus (available on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and Amazon) as well as three novels for kids: Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat, John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead, and George Washington and the Magic Hat.
Together with her father, Marvin Kalb, she co-authored Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama and she also has published other books on politics and government as well as working as a journalist for more than two decades covering Congress and politics.2023-05-1739 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for May 2023Just a few thoughts on why writers must be willing to explore new genres with their writing.
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2023-05-0704 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Carissa Turpin, authorCarissa Turpin is the author of the novel, Doomsday Dani. Carissa grew up in a small Eastern Kentucky town where she fell in love with storytelling in all its forms.
She began teaching high school English in 2008 near her hometown, where she remained for ten years, before relocating to Phoenix, Arizona where she made the switch to teaching middle school.
In 2021, Carissa left Arizona and returned to Kentucky to continue teaching middle schoolers. She lives in Louisville with her miniature schnauzer puppy named after Leonardo DiCaprio and one too many books.
For more...2023-04-1239 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for April 2023Just a few thoughts on why we must stop believing that our age defines our possibilities.
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2023-04-0503 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for March 2023Just a few thoughts on why we need to take the time to acknowledge our achievements and savor our successes.
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2023-03-0504 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With…Peter Berk, novelist and screenwriterPeter Berk is the son of noted writer Howard Berk, whose credits included Columbo, Mission: Impossible and several novels and features.
Peter has co-written several screenplays with his father, and on his own has written a recently-optioned sci-fi/time travel TV pilot, seven scripts and five novels in the TimeLock series, the first of which was published in late 2022 and is available here.
He also co-authored a non-fiction book with actor Dick Van Patten that was published some 15 years ago. Peter lives in Southern California and is the proud father of two sons and one...2023-02-1545 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for February 2023Just a few thoughts on why we need to show our writing self some love on a consistent basis.
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2023-02-0504 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Tyler James RussellTyler James Russell is the author of When Fire Splits the Sky (2022), a novel, and To Drown a Man (2020), a poetry collection, both from Unsolicited Press.
His writing has been nominated for the Rhysling and Best of the Net, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, F(r)iction, Janus Literary, and the NonBinary Review, among others.
Tyler works as an educator and lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Cat and their children. You can find him at Tylerjamesrussell.com, on Twitter at @TJamesRussell, or on Instagram @_TJamesRussell.
In to...2023-01-181h 02Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for January 2023Just a few thoughts on why we need to match our goals and plans to our definition of writing success.
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2023-01-0405 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Ramona Reeves, authorRamona Reeves’ interlinked story collection, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and is set in Mobile, Alabama, where she grew up.
She has been awarded an AROHO fellowship, a residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, a scholarship from Community of Writers, and the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize. Ramona also has served as an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press.
Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review, Bayou Magazine, Pembroke, Superstition Review, Texas Highways and others.
2022-12-1451 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for December 2022Just a few thoughts on what three gifts we should give ourselves to foster our creative life.
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2022-12-0706 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on Writing and Life for November 2022Just a few thoughts on why our most important goal as writers should be to connect with our readers.
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2022-11-0404 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Erica Bauermeister, author
Erica Bauermeister is the best-selling author of four novels, including The School of Essential Ingredients and the 2020 Reese’s Book Club pick The Scent Keeper.
She has also written a memoir entitled House Lessons: Renovating a Life and is the co-author of two readers’ guides to books: 500 Great Books by Women and Let’s Hear It For the Girls.
Erica’s fifth novel, No Two Persons, will be published in May 2023. Her books are available on Bookshop and other bookstores.
She lives with her husband in Port Townsend, WA.
For more...2022-10-1956 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on Writing and Life for October 2022Just a few thoughts on how an insignificant object from our past can become a guidepost for our writing life
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2022-10-0504 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… Chante Thomas, authorChante Thomas is a twenty-eight-year veteran fifth-grade teacher in Shaker Heights, Ohio and has been writing children’s stories over the span of her career.
In 2017, she decided it was time to bring her stories to life and published her first book, Where I’m From, sharing the geographic story of five diverse children with roots in the United States, Africa, and Asia.
Her second book, Go To School Tommy is about the power of a smile, and her third book, Sean and the Book Cures, told from a kid’s perspective, takes readers through the un...2022-09-1451 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for September 2022Just a few thoughts on the importance of developing a mission statement to guide you through your writing life.
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2022-09-0702 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Juliet Marillier, authorJuliet Marillier was born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a graduate of the University of Otago and has had a varied career that included music teaching and performing. She now lives in a historic cottage in Western Australia, where she writes full time.
Juliet’s historical fantasy novels and short stories are published internationally and have won numerous awards. She is the author of twenty-four novels, including A Song of Flight (Warrior Bards), the Blackthorn & Grim series and the Sevenwaters series, as well as two collections of short fiction: Mother Thorn and Other Tales of...2022-08-1759 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for August 2022Just a few thoughts on the importance of having the right role model at the right time for our writing life
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2022-08-0305 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With... Corie Adjmi, authorCorie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award, and the forthcoming novel, The Marriage Box, named a Must-Read New Book of 2022 that is due out in 2023.
Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Motherwell and Kveller, and she has been featured in Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Times, Parade and BuzzFeed.
When she is not...2022-07-2733 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for July 2022Just a few thoughts on how we can use our creative ability to free ourselves from negative thoughts and beliefs
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2022-07-0605 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Kathryn Schulz, author
Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong and her most recent book, Lost & Found—an insightful and moving exploration of grief and love, and how those two emotions have the power to change us, transform us, and expand our concept of who we are and how we can live.
Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak,” a New Yorker story that was anthologized in The Best American Essays.
She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize for “The Really Big One,” her article abou...2022-06-1533 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for June 2022Just a few thoughts on the need to protect the light of creativity. The power to do so rests with us: in our hands, in our minds, in our belief that we have something worth thinking, worth saying—something worth writing.
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2022-06-0503 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Adrienne Reiter, authorAdrienne Reiter is a communications specialist, writer, and author of three novels: Twist, Chosen, and her latest, Lounge Act that’s been called a “sexy thriller with attitude.”
She writes mystery, speculative, literary fiction, and, by her own admission, is a compulsive blogger.
She is also a co-host on the podcast, Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun, where she swaps terrible tales, and general ghoul talk with Leo Buckley of Books Inc. San Francisco and lead guitarist for Bay Area bands Penury and Hazzard's Cure. You can follow the podcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Adri...2022-05-1852 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for May 2022Just a few thoughts on the surprises and joys that come from sowing seeds in a literary garden.
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2022-05-0404 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Gregory Erich Phillips, novelistGregory Erich Phillips is the author of three award-winning novels: Love of Finished Years, The Exile and his most recent novel, A Season in Lights.
Gregory comes from a prolific literary family, and he carries on that tradition by writing aspirational stories through strong, relatable characters that transcend time and space, transporting readers into the world of his fiction.
Gregory is also an accomplished tango dancer and musician. For more about Gregory and his work, visit his website and follow him on Facebook and Instagram.
In today’s conversation, we’ll discuss the idea...2022-04-1340 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for April 2022Just a few thoughts about the importance of staying focused on your goals, even if you think it’s too late for you to achieve them, because, after all, you never know.
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2022-04-0604 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With … Dana Spiotta, novelistDana Spiotta is the author of five novels: Lightning Field (2002), Eat the Document (2006), Stone Arabia (2011), Innocents & Others (2016), and her most recent, Wayward (2021) that was called by the New York Times a “virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.”
Dana has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
For...2022-03-1636 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for March 2022Just a few thoughts on how reaching the top (i.e., success) requires us to take one step after the other—without giving up.
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2022-03-0604 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With ... Casie Bazay, young adult novelistCasie Bazay is a former middle school teacher whose debut novel, Not Our Summer, was released in the spring of 2021 by Running Press Kids.
A freelance writer, and editor, Casie lives on a hay farm in Oklahoma with her husband and two children, and in her spare time, enjoys exploring the great outdoors, spending time at the barn with her horses and goats, reading, and watching movies. Casie also loves traveling to new and exciting destinations whenever she can.
For more about Casie, visit her website and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
2022-02-1646 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for February 2022Just a few thoughts on how love for the craft of writing can survive, despite setbacks, disappointments and frustrations.
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2022-02-0404 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With ... Deborah Tobola, award-winning memoirist, poet, playwright and co-author of a children’s bookDeborah Tobola is a memoirist, poet, playwright, and co-author of a children’s book. Her work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards and a Children’s Choice Book Award.
Her memoir, Hummingbird in Underworld, won a Next Generation Indie Book Award in Social Justice, a Nautilus Silver Book Award in Heroic Journeys, a Readers’ Favorite bronze medal in Non-Fiction – Social Issues, and first place in Chanticleer International’s HEARTEN Awards. It was also a finalist in the Willa Literary Awards’ Women Writing the West in Creative Nonfiction. Last year it was released in...2022-01-1935 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for January 2022Just a few thoughts on how sometimes the wisest course of action is to take a step back and do something completely unrelated to what you are supposed to do—in short, to give yourself a breather, to recoup and regroup.
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2022-01-0405 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With ... award-winning poet Karen SchubertKaren Schubert is the author of the poetry collection The Compost Reader (Accents Publishing) and five chapbooks including Dear Youngstown (NightBallet Press), I Left My Wings on a Chair (Kent State Press) and Black Sand Beach (Kattywompus Press).
Her poetry appears most recently in Reunion: The Dallas Review, Olney Magazine, Poor Yorick, New World Writing and Read+Write: 30 Days of Poetry.
Karen has received the Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. She is...2021-12-2246 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for December 2021Just a few thoughts on the importance of remembering that, despite any failures or setbacks the past year may have held, any day spent writing is still a good day.
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2021-12-0805 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for November 2021Just a few thoughts on the need to balance your writing time with much-needed downtime.
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2021-11-0304 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning author Brad KesslerBrad Kessler is the author of the memoir, Goat Song, as well as two critically acclaimed novels, Lick Creek and Birds in Fall, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction. His latest novel is North.
He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Whiting, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, the Kenyon Review, and Bomb.
For more about Brad, visit his Facebook page and his Instagram profile.
In today’s conv...2021-10-1350 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for October 2021Just a few thoughts on the need to fuel your passion for writing every day, in every way that you can.
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2021-10-0504 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning author A. Piper BurgiPiper Burgi is an award-winning author of six historical novels to date, with a seventh currently in the editing stage, as well as several other books.
Her debut novel, In the Shadow of Her Majesty, was a Golden Book Award Semi-Finalist, and her women's fiction novel The Country Girl Empress—book one of the series—won the Firebird Book Award in the historical fiction category and was named “...a must-read for historical fiction fans who can appreciate imperial intrigues...” by Readers' Favorite Book Reviews.
An Air Force veteran, and military spouse, Piper is a member of the H...2021-09-1542 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for September 2021Just a few thoughts on the importance of learning something new—or even, perhaps, re-learning something critical that we have forgotten.
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2021-09-0503 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning author Wade Rouse aka Viola ShipmanWade Rouse is an award-winning author who also writes under the pen name of Viola Shipman, his grandmother’s name, that he chose to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his writing.
He has written several books under that pseudonym, including The Summer Cottage, The Heirloom Garden, and his most recent, The Clover Girls, which was released May 2021. His next book, The Secret of Snow, will be published in October.
The noted humorist of four critically acclaimed memoirs, Wade’s books have been selected multiple times as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today show...2021-08-1133 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for August 2021Just a few thoughts on why we should remain open to opportunity, even if we don’t know where following it will take us.
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2021-08-0404 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning author Gwen GoodkinGwen Goodkin is the author of the short story collection, A Place Remote, winner of the Silver IPPY in Great Lakes - Best Regional Fiction. Her novel, The Plant, was named a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel-in-Progress competition, and her TV pilot script, "The Plant," based on that novel was named a quarterfinalist for Cinestory's TV/Digital retreat.
Gwen has won the Folio Editor's Prize for Fiction, the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, the Silver Prize (Short Script) for her screenplay "Winnie" in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest and the Eyewear Publishing's Beverly Prize for her essay...2021-07-1640 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for July 2021Just a few thoughts on the challenges in deciding how to define yourself as a writer—and whether you even should limit yourself to a specific category.
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2021-07-0305 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning author Clare PooleyClare Pooley is the author of The Sober Diaries and The Authenticity Project—a New York Times and international bestseller, and winner of the RNA debut novel award. She joins us from Fulham, London, England where she lives with her husband, three children, two border terriers, and an African pygmy hedgehog!
After twenty years in the heady world of advertising where, according to her bio, she worked hard, played hard and drank even harder, Clare realized that she had to say farewell to alcohol, and started a blog—Mummy was a Secret Drinker—by way of therapy, which...2021-06-1646 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for June 2021Just a few thoughts on the importance of celebrating our small successes, even if no one else knows what we have accomplished.
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2021-06-0305 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… author Rea Frey, CEO and founder of WritewayRea Frey is the author of four suspense novels—Until I Find You, Because You're Mine, Not Her Daughter and Secrets of Our House that will be released February 2022—as well as several nonfiction books.
She is also the CEO and founder of Writeway™, where she teaches aspiring writers how they can become published authors, too, and host of her weekly Writeway podcast that helps demystify the publishing industry.
Rea says that her passion in life is “telling stories, connecting with readers, and helping other aspiring authors tell their stories too.”
For more about Rea...2021-05-1241 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for May 2021Just a few thoughts on the surprising resilience of creativity.
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2021-05-0503 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… author Jeffrey S. StephensJeffrey S. Stephens is the author of six novels: the Jordan Sandor espionage thrillers series, Crimes and Passion, the first in a planned series featuring Lieutenant Robbie Whyte, and his latest book, Fool’s Errand.
Fool’s Errand explores the relationship between a father and son, and the events that will ultimately lead that young man on an international treasure hunt that causes him to confront a collection of interesting characters as well as himself. It’s been described as poignant and entertaining, humorous and exciting, romantic and mysterious.
He has also recently completed a fifth...2021-04-2140 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for April 2021Just a few thoughts on what baking yeast bread and writing have in common.
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2021-04-0403 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning author Arielle HaugheeA former elementary teacher, Arielle Haughee (Hoy) is a five-time RPLA-winning author and the owner of Orange Blossom Publishing.
She is the author of The Complete Revision Workbook for Writers, the children’s books Grumbler, Joyride, and Pling’s Party, the editor of the How I Met My Other anthology series, and the creator of the Focus Journal line of journals.
Arielle is an editor, speaker, and consultant as well as the Executive Vice President for the Florida Writers Association, who honored her with the President’s Award in 2020. In addition to her membership in the FW...2021-03-1738 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for March 2021Just a few thoughts on how one small sign of a new season can make all the difference in how we feel and what we do.
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2021-03-0303 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieIn Conversation With… award-winning novelist Susan WingateSusan Wingate is a #1 Amazon bestselling, award-winning author of over fifteen novels. Her latest book, How the Deer Moon Hungers, has won five book awards, including Best Fiction Author in the 2020 SABA Book Awards Judge’s Selection, Best Fiction in the 2020 Pacific Book Award, a Silver Award in the 2020 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and July 2020 Book Cover of the Month Awards.
Susan writes across genres often setting her stories in the Pacific Northwest where she and her husband, Bob live. Susan’s writing has been featured in the Virginia Quarterly, Suspense Magazine and many others.
For...2021-02-1737 minLiving The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy ChristieThoughts on writing and life for February 2021Just a few thoughts on how fear in all its forms can hold us back from what we most want to achieve, and why we can’t let it defeat us.
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