Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt
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I'm absolutely thrilled to announce a six-week All About Fantasy virtual retreat from the 30th of September to the 4th of November, Wednesday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. In recent years, fantasy and romances have made a huge impact on the market. From seven-figure deals and self-published sensations to book talk, The book market has been radically transformed by the huge sales and demand for a genre that whisks us away to a new world with the turn of a page. But what does this mean for new authors? Join me and six guests who range from editors, agents and fantasy authors to answer this question and so many others. Whether you write YA fantasy, romantasy, adult fantasy, epic fantasy, dystopian fiction, or any other variation on the genre, you don't want to miss out on this amazing six weeks of learning dedicated especially to you and those writing in your genre.
For more information and to book your spot, go to biancamarie.ca and go to the All About Fantasy tab. Hi, everyone. It's time to register for the next beta reader matchup. with the matchup emails going out on the 8th of September. As per usual, you'll be submitting 3,000 words from your work in progress, and I'll be matching you up with writers in similar time zones and or genres. Many of the beta reader groups turn into writing groups with a lot of longevity, which is always marvelous to see. To sign up, go to my website, biancamarie.ca, and go to the beta reader matchup page. I look forward to matching you. Hi there and welcome to our show, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing. I'm best-selling author Bianca Murray and I'm joined by Cece Lira of Wendy Sherman Associates and Carly Waters of PS Literary.
hi everyone we have a really special guest today somebody i've been trying to get on the podcast for the longest time so i'm super excited he is the number one new york times best-selling author of 26 books including midwives hour of the witch and the flight attendant which was an hbo max tv series some of his other books include the lioness the sandcastle girls and the jackal's mistress His novels, Midwives, Secrets of Eden and Past the Bleachers were made into movies and his work has been translated into more than 35 languages. He's also a playwright of The Club and Midwives. He lives in Vermont. It's my pleasure to welcome Chris Bojelian. Chris, welcome to the show.
Bianca, what a pleasure it is to meet you virtually. And I love, love, love the name of your podcast.
Thank you so much. You all heard it there from Chris, so you know it's a good name. It is. For those of you who are not watching on YouTube, I am holding up the book we're discussing today, The Amateur. We're going to link to it on our bookshop.org affiliate page. If you buy it there, you support an independent bookstore. and the podcast at the same time. Now, Chris, before we dive in, I'm going to read the flat copy so everybody knows what we're getting into, and then we'll take it away from there. 1978. It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are floating with 90 when Mira Winston, 18 years old, drives a golf ball from her tee towards the practice net near the clubhouse in Caddyshack. The golf ball, weighing 1.6 ounces, tears through the net, traveling 150 miles per hour, and slams with sickening force into the temple of a high school junior named Kenny Foster, rupturing an artery and unleashing a torrent of blood.
Kenny brings his hand to the side of his head, then topples onto his side. He's dead before the ambulance even arrives. In the wake of this terrible accident, and everyone at first agrees it was an accident, Mira looks for the comfort in all the wrong places. In her lover, Theo Katten, a married man three decades her senior. In her mother, a well-kept woman with secrets of her own. In the dead caddy's little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. But when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira's history of recklessness, and when Kenny's father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once promising young woman.
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