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
"It's Never Gonna Happen For Me" — Hannah Sward tells the story of Strip
Hannah Sward tells the story of Strip.
Along the way, she covers:
- A publishing journey full of false summits
- Publishing without an agent
- Querying agents
- Why not to be a writer
- That you should not be afraid to write the shittiest shit
- Natalie Goldberg and Writing Down the Bones
- Jill Schary Robinson
- Family responses to memoir
- Publishing with a small indie Tortoise Press
- Small press distribution
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