Kathleen Glasgow
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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So is the podcast fictional or real? Fictional. Fictional. I would say that the perfect book to turn into a podcast would actually be You'd Be Home Now. Because it has all these different elements to it and you could bring in all these different topics like addiction and then parentification.
But also it has some poetry and it has those great moments with the character Miss Educated who does those Instagram posts. And I would say that has like enough multimedia that that would be like a perfect podcast. Oh, I agree. Actually, that's a really good idea. What is at the top of your to be read list? At the top of my to be read list is this book that I need to read through and finish.
Actually, it's a new book. Did you ever read the book All the Right Places? No. By Jennifer Niven. It's another YA novel. It's really great. They made it into a Netflix movie.
Yeah. So she has a book coming out and I'm reading her new book right now before it comes out. And it's it's really it's it's totally different for her. And it's kind of a dark academia mystery. And I'm I'm really enjoying it. So that's I have started that. I have to finish it. But first, I have to finish my book.
I think a lot of people.
like think that and I mean I don't know I read all the books that I blurb because you can't you can't just slap something on there because what if there's something in that book that like you're like oh no no like that's highly objectionable do you know what I mean like you're like oh you know and so no no also I mean I don't maybe some people do I don't know who are they that should be the mystery that we should try to solve in our book that we're going to write with Liz is like the mystery of are blurbs real or not
Now that you're an author, you know, don't go to Goodreads. You don't want to know what they're saying. Like someone for, I think it was Girl in Pieces, when I made the mistake of going over there, and their review was just one line, and it was like, this is the stupidest book that I have ever read in my life. Which is fine because once your book is out, people have their own opinions.
Like some people like a book, some people don't, whatever. But whenever I'm teaching writing workshops for teenagers, I'm like, how many of you think that what you write is stupid? And they all raise their hands. And I'm like, so I actually wrote the stupidest book that's ever been written. So you can't. I win.
Whatever you write, it's going to be great because I wrote the stupidest book ever written.
No, it's fine. Yeah.
I don't I don't like offer them. I do it when I do school visits because like I have like so much like social anxiety and like anxiety about speaking in public that when I do a school visitor, I have like a public event. I will usually say I don't want to come to your school.
school and stand up in front of 500 teenagers because i didn't i that's like no no i don't want to do that um but i i will do smaller breakout sessions with like 20 to 25 students and we will do a writing workshop and i will teach them how to draft a novel in 30 minutes
And that is actually the funnest exercise for me to do because everyone starts participating because it's like when you co-write a book like I did with Liz, the pressure's off you alone and you're not by yourself. And everyone has ideas and we can come up with this whole draft of the book in 30 minutes.
And usually in like six months, two of the kids from the class will email me and say, I wrote 100 pages based on what we did. And I'm like, you're yay. You're off and running. You did it. I gave you a little structure and ideas. You're doing it. I want to see your book on a bookshelf someday. And so I will do I do things like that. I love that so much.
It's like it's fun because. Once you get started and you're thinking about a book, ideas, they will just happen. Everyone is creative. I think that when you're younger, sometimes it starts being graded in school and then you say, oh, I got a C on my story. And you say, I'm not a good writer. And you give up. And that's one way to kill creativity in a kid. Definitely. Don't do that.
That should be in more schools. You should be writing. You should be painting. There should be no grades for those
class every day gets an A you know they just want you to be like producing your work because it's good and you feel good when you do it like when you were writing your books and you were in the zone didn't that feel great yes and actually that's a really good point that you made I follow a book talker and she says that she doesn't
you know, I'm not any good. And I'm like, well, what have you written? They're like, well, nothing. And I'm like, well, I didn't tell you that. Who told you that? You just have to try. Somebody out there is probably really going to like that story. You just have to start. And then...
Take your steps, whether you want to self-publish or traditionally publish, but somebody out there is going to love it. And that's the person that you're writing towards. Right. Not the other people who are going to give you like one star, no stars or say awful things about you and hold up your book. You're writing to the other people.
They can buy my books anywhere books are sold. They're everywhere. The Target edition is the exclusive edition with the beautiful ombre cover. But they're available everywhere. And the Target one has that book of the year, which I will carry proudly to the end of my days.
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