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Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy Christie

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A podcast for and about writers—the business side and the creative perspective—and how our life experiences intersect with our writing work. How we do it, why we do it and what keeps us going as we navigate the creative environment. Because, published or not, wildly popular or still unknown, we are all writers. ”Living the Writing Life” is a copyrighted podcast solely owned by author Nancy Christie. For more information, visit her website at www.nancychristie.com.
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In Conversation With … Jonathan Lewis, writer and assemblage artist 1:04:30

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Jonathan Lewis writes microfiction travelogues which he shares freely at his website. Each 500-word story follows an international traveler as he explores the world and tries to better understand his place in it. Now retired, Jonathan has had an eclectic career: California State Senate legislative staffer; art gallery owner; founder/CEO of a global…
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Thoughts on writing and life for May 2024 6:30

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Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse creative dormancy with creative death. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter? Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie, and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus! Follow me on social media: Goodreads * X/Twitter * Facebook * TikTok * Instagram * LinkedIn * Pintere…
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In Conversation With … Charlene Wexler, author 36:13

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A native Chicagoan, Charlene Wexler has been a teacher, wife, dental office manager, mother and grandmother. In retirement, her lifelong passion for writing has led her to create several essays and novels. Her books include Murder on Skid Row, Milk and Oranges, Lori and Elephants In The Room. Charlene’s newest book, Farewell To South Shore was rele…
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Thoughts on writing and life for April 2024 5:05

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Just a few thoughts on why we can’t let our creativity be eclipsed by others or our own self-doubt. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter? Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie, and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus! Follow me on social media: Goodreads * X/Twitter * Facebook * TikTok * Instagram * Linke…
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In Conversation With … Stephani Halleen Atkins (aka s.c.halleen), author 55:58

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Stephani Halleen Atkins, who writes under the name of s.c.halleen, describes herself as a recovering nonprofit founder, current grant writer, and the aspiring creator of a new form of reading: the SummerSnow multimedia serial story, which reads like an ebook but interweaves audio, image and film throughout the narrative. In addition, she has writte…
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Thoughts on writing and life for March 2024 3:53

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Just a few thoughts on why we have to believe that our creativity, like a garden bed, can produce results. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter? Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie, and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus! Follow me on social media: Goodreads * X/Twitter * Facebook * TikTok * Instagram …
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Thoughts on writing and life for February 2024 4:11

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Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t let milestone birthdays stop us in our creative tracks. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter? Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie, and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus! Follow me on social media: Goodreads * X/Twitter * Facebook * TikTok * Instagram * LinkedIn …
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In Conversation With … Eric Walker, author 53:36

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As an amateur genealogist and family historian, Eric Walker was impelled to write his debut novel Lost Souls Recovered when he discovered the richness of family stories through research of historical documents and those stories told to him by relatives. As he read historical documents and talked to relatives, he envisioned a way to bring to life in…
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In Conversation With … Michael Bourne, author 49:58

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Michael Bourne is the author of Blithedale Canyon (Regal House, 2022). He is a long-time contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and he has written for the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, The Economist, Literary Hub, and Salon. His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines including, most recently, december, The Southam…
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In Conversation With … Molly Giles, author 55:29

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Molly Giles is the award-winning author of six story collections and two novels. Rough Translations won The Flannery O’Connor Prize the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award. Other notable accolades have been awarded from the Small Press Best Fiction Award for Creek Walk, which also earned a Commonwealth Silver Medal Award for …
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In Conversation With … Gillian Felix, author and entrepreneur 56:46

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Gillian Felix has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pencil, and as of this writing, she is the author of 10 books. She enjoys creating characters that could be your next-door neighbor, but would you want them as your neighbor is another story. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Miss Felix moved to the United States in 1998. She has …
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In Conversation With … Egyptologist Mary Ann Marazzi, PhD 55:14

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Mary Ann Marazzi is an Egyptologist with a doctoral degree in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology/Egyptology, who has 27 years of experience working at archaeological sites in the US, Italy, and Egypt. She has taught art history and world cultures at colleges and universities, edits academic journals and has written numerous articles for educ…
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In Conversation With … Joyce Maynard, author 41:35

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Over her fifty-year career, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard has published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir At Home in the World and the novels To Die For and Labor Day, both adapted for film. Maynard’s newest novel, The Bird Hotel, was published May 2023. How the Light Ge…
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In Conversation With … Cecelia Tichi, author 1:00:33

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Cecelia Tichi is the author of the “Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded Series,” mystery crime novels that pulse with turn-of-the-century American life…and death. An award-winning author and Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University, her nonfiction and fiction books have focused on the decades of America's industrial titans…
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In Conversation With … Deborah Kalb, author 39:31

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Deborah Kalb is the author of the forthcoming adult novel Off to Join the Circus (available on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and Amazon) as well as three novels for kids: Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat, John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead, and George Washington and the Magic Hat. Together with her father, Marvin Kalb, she co-authored H…
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In Conversation With … Carissa Turpin, author 39:04

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Carissa Turpin is the author of the novel, Doomsday Dani. Carissa grew up in a small Eastern Kentucky town where she fell in love with storytelling in all its forms. She began teaching high school English in 2008 near her hometown, where she remained for ten years, before relocating to Phoenix, Arizona where she made the switch to teaching middle s…
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In Conversation With…Peter Berk, novelist and screenwriter 45:59

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Peter Berk is the son of noted writer Howard Berk, whose credits included Columbo, Mission: Impossible and several novels and features. Peter has co-written several screenplays with his father, and on his own has written a recently-optioned sci-fi/time travel TV pilot, seven scripts and five novels in the TimeLock series, the first of which was pub…
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In Conversation With … Tyler James Russell 1:02:17

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Tyler James Russell is the author of When Fire Splits the Sky (2022), a novel, and To Drown a Man (2020), a poetry collection, both from Unsolicited Press. His writing has been nominated for the Rhysling and Best of the Net, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, F(r)iction, Janus Literary, and the NonBinary Review, among o…
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In Conversation With … Ramona Reeves, author 51:48

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Ramona Reeves’ interlinked story collection, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and is set in Mobile, Alabama, where she grew up. She has been awarded an AROHO fellowship, a residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, a scholarship from Community of Wri…
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In Conversation With … Erica Bauermeister, author 56:49

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Erica Bauermeister is the best-selling author of four novels, including The School of Essential Ingredients and the 2020 Reese’s Book Club pick The Scent Keeper. She has also written a memoir entitled House Lessons: Renovating a Life and is the co-author of two readers’ guides to books: 500 Great Books by Women and Let’s Hear It For the Girls. Eric…
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In Conversation With… Chante Thomas, author 51:28

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Chante Thomas is a twenty-eight-year veteran fifth-grade teacher in Shaker Heights, Ohio and has been writing children’s stories over the span of her career. In 2017, she decided it was time to bring her stories to life and published her first book, Where I’m From, sharing the geographic story of five diverse children with roots in the United State…
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In Conversation With … Juliet Marillier, author 59:43

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Juliet Marillier was born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a graduate of the University of Otago and has had a varied career that included music teaching and performing. She now lives in a historic cottage in Western Australia, where she writes full time. Juliet’s historical fantasy novels and short stories are published internationally a…
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In Conversation With... Corie Adjmi, author 33:21

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Corie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award, and the forthcoming novel, The Marriage Box, named a Must-Read New Book of 2022 that is due out in 2023. Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared …
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In Conversation With … Kathryn Schulz, author 33:45

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Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong and her most recent book, Lost & Found—an insightful and moving exploration of grief and love, and how those two emotions have the power to change us, transform us, and expand our concept of who we are and how we can live. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak,” a Ne…
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Thoughts on writing and life for June 2022 3:42

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Just a few thoughts on the need to protect the light of creativity. The power to do so rests with us: in our hands, in our minds, in our belief that we have something worth thinking, worth saying—something worth writing. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter? Sign up for my newsletter, The Writing Life with Nancy Christie, and recei…
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In Conversation With … Adrienne Reiter, author 52:05

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Adrienne Reiter is a communications specialist, writer, and author of three novels: Twist, Chosen, and her latest, Lounge Act that’s been called a “sexy thriller with attitude.” She writes mystery, speculative, literary fiction, and, by her own admission, is a compulsive blogger. She is also a co-host on the podcast, Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun, whe…
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In Conversation With … Gregory Erich Phillips, novelist 40:43

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Gregory Erich Phillips is the author of three award-winning novels: Love of Finished Years, The Exile and his most recent novel, A Season in Lights. Gregory comes from a prolific literary family, and he carries on that tradition by writing aspirational stories through strong, relatable characters that transcend time and space, transporting readers …
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In Conversation With … Dana Spiotta, novelist 36:32

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Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels: Lightning Field (2002), Eat the Document (2006), Stone Arabia (2011), Innocents & Others (2016), and her most recent, Wayward (2021) that was called by the New York Times a “virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” Dana has been a finalist for …
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