34. A Conversation with Katie Tallo, Author of Dark August
Soul and Wit
Bailey Carver
4.8 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Courtney and Bailey chat with Katie Tallo, Author of Dark August, a novel (thriller, mystery) that is hard to put down.
They talk about:
- How Courtney and Katie met ten years ago.
- What Dark August is about.
- Katie’s writing process and authors who inspired her to write a book.
- Recommendations for people who want to write and publish fiction and how she found a literary agent.
- Katie’s favorite books to recommend.
Find links to everything mentioned in the show notes on soulandwit.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soul and Witt. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Courtney. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Bailey. |
| 0:05.9 | We are the mother-daughter duo here to make you laugh, grow, and feel more connected to your favorite things. |
| 0:39.1 | Hi, Mom. Hey, Bailey. Hey, Bailey. How's it going? It's going pretty good. Yeah. How's it going for you? It's going all right. I like, I'm feeling not 100% today, but I'm hoping I can just sleep and bounce back. |
| 0:43.0 | Aw, we had such a fun day yesterday. I'm sorry you're not feeling great today. |
| 0:49.3 | I know. Yeah, we, yesterday we went and celebrated Father's Day because we're recording this, |
| 0:58.2 | what, like a week in advance when it comes out? Yes. Yeah. And we had a little fire pit and had s'mores. It was really nice. It was very good, although I am totally sugared out. Are you? Shiggered out. I feel like |
| 1:05.5 | a month of birthdays and then Father's Day and then plus quarantine and I just am over sugar today. |
| 1:13.7 | All right. |
| 1:14.5 | No more sugar for you. |
| 1:15.8 | Not today at least. |
| 1:17.3 | Okay. |
| 1:18.3 | Well, let's talk about our favorite things. |
| 1:20.9 | I have two things. |
| 1:22.1 | I think I mentioned this on the podcast already that I am moving just from one apartment to a townhouse. Not very far or anything, |
| 1:30.9 | but I'm just moving. And I got new bedding. And it's so amazing. I love it. I don't know. |
| 1:38.7 | There's just nothing like new bedding. Or like freshly cleaned bedding. Yeah, I changed my sheets last night too. |
| 1:46.0 | So maybe that's why like new bedding is like top of mind right now. |
| 1:50.4 | And then my second favorite thing is a show that I watched on Netflix, |
| 1:54.0 | which I might be late to the game with, but I finished it last week. |
| 1:57.8 | It's called Outer Banks. |
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