Ep531 – Joanne Harris — Squeeze Your Characters
Joanne Harris returns to the podcast with her gripping page-turning thriller A Narrow Door. Joanne answers our listener questions, tells us the importance of human interaction to her writing, why she doesn’t see a distinction between plotting and pantsing, and why ideas are like planets in a solar system. And the Two Marks discuss a chicken-writer analogy that has to be heard to be believed…
We discuss…
- Writing in different genres
- Tips for authors as festivals
- And the role that reading out loud plays in her process…
LISTEN
- Here’s our previous episode with Joanne Harris: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep04-bestseller-joanne-harris-chocolat-sheds/
- And there’s more about Joanne here: https://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/about/
- Here’s a link to Mr Stay’s next book launch in Canterbury: https://www.waterstones.com/events/mark-stay-babes-in-the-wood-witches-of-woodville-ii/canterbury-rose-lane
- Our episode with Sasha Greene, who writes one day a week… https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep352-sasha-greene-trust-and-the-writer/
Our Listeners’ Favourite Bookshops…
- Rother Books, Battle… https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RotherBooks
- Eagle Harbour Books, Washington… https://www.eagleharborbooks.com/
- Munro’s, BC… https://munrobooks.com/
- WriteBlend, Liverpool… https://www.writeblend.co.uk/
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