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
RERELEASE! Shannon Sanders talks about her award-winning story collection Company
In this episode, I talk to Shannon Sanders about her linked short story collection, Company. We talk about:
- writing your own murder mystery parties
- writing through your feelings about others' offhand comments
- signing with an agent a week before COVID lockdown
- persisting in your writing through the birth of twins
- finishing your book while raising three children under three
- resisting, as a writer of short stories, the pressure to turn them into a novel
- trusting your own aesthetic judgement
- toddler responses to mom's book
- LeVar Burton!
You can find Company here.
Also check out The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by the author Danielle Evans who is mentioned in the episode ( Shannon is a fan! ).