Writing Stories
Each episode of Writing Stories features an interview with a contemporary author about how her book went from an idea in her head to an object on a shelf. Join us on Writing Stories for honesty, struggle, and triumph, for writing community, publishing insight, and inspiration to persist in whatever difficult but meaningful journey you've chosen for yourself.
Writing Stories
What If Nobody Likes it? Nicole Haroutunian Tells the Story of Choose This Now
Nicole Haroutunian tells the story of Choose This Now.
Along the way, we cover...
- Her first book Speed Dreaming
- Agent troubles
- Rewriting a novella as a chapter
- Creating a novel from stories
- Having a book die on submission
- When you lose your job and your agent at the same time your city goes into COVID lockdown
- Pre-publication anxiety
- An awesome editing move by John Darcy at Noemi Press
- Stella Fiori and Amy Shearn and the Cut and Paste Motherhood Residency
- Lenka Clayton and Open Source Artists in Residency in Motherhood
- Lorrie Moore and Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
- Jo Ann Beard and In Zanesville
Find out more about Nicole Haroutunian here
Buy Choose This Now here