EP150: Joanna Nadin – The Queen of Bloody Everything

Joanna Nadin has written over 70 award-winning books for children and adults and recently inspired Mr. Stay to completely re-write his middle-grade children’s book. She shares a flood of amazing writing tips with us and tells us why she loves to make readers cry.
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In this episode you will discover…
- Top tips for productive outlining and how it can help to finish a novel in record time
- Why the voice of your characters is so important
- How her own childhood inspired a bestselling series
- And the perils of writing about subjects like sex for teens
Here are some of the links we talked about in the show…
- Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bestsellerexperiment
- Support Jenni Desvaux’s book The Very Last Monster Book: http://lastmonsters.com
- Pre-order The End of Magic: https://unbound.com/books/end-of-magic/
- Back to Reality: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality/
- Scrivener: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/
- Damonza: https://damonza.com/bestsellerxp/
- Damonza (10% off all packages with code bestsellerxp): https://damonza.com/bestsellerxp/
- Joanna Nadin’s website: https://joannanadin.com/
- Joanna Nadin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/joannanadin
- Joe All Alone TV series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zj68f
- Steve Cavanagh’s episode: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/125-steve-cavanagh/
- Karen Ball’s episode: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep39-karen-ball/
- Gareth L Powell on pantsing: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep117-gareth-l-powell-how-to-sing-a-space-opera/
- Mr. Stay’s blog on ARCs: https://markstaywrites.com/2018/10/30/i-got-some-arcs-printed/
- Evernote: https://evernote.com/
- The Ben Aaronovitch episode: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep22-ben-aaronovitch-great-bollocking/
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