Ep 126: Books we wish we'd written (A conversation with author Shawn Smucker)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This conversation with my old friend Shawn Smucker is one of the best I've had in awhile. We talk about reading and ghost writing and self-publishing and (not) censoring what our kids read. And we also talk about the books we wish we'd written. Somehow I shock Shawn with one of my answers! Shawn Smucker is the author of six novels, including his latest The Weight of Memory (which I devoured in a day). Shawn calls The Weight of Memory "a modern day fairy tale." FULL SHOW NOTES HERE You can hear more about the trip to Sri Lanka where Shawn and I met in my Secret Tapes interviews (part of my Secret Stuff private podcast). Sponsors: Prose haircare. Get 15% off your first order by going to Prose.com/YOU Molekule air purifiers. Save up to $120 off by going to Molekule.com and using promo code YOU * Thank you for listening to 10 Things To Tell You! Let's connect: Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Follow @laura.tremaine on IG Follow @mslauratremaine on FB Sign Up for episode emails Join the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group Listen to Secret Stuff Buy SHARE YOUR STUFF. I'LL GO FIRST. by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.
0:28.0	This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves.
0:33.0	And the hope is that the things we talk about here
0:35.3	will be fuel for better conversations
0:37.8	and a personal awareness.
0:40.3	This is an interactive podcast.
0:43.0	Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,
0:48.0	text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.
0:55.3	This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.
1:01.8	This conversation with my old friend Sean Smucker is one of my very favorites that I've had in a while and I'm so excited to share it with you.
1:11.0	Sean is an author and a husband and a dad and a truly all around
1:16.4	amazing human being. We've been friends for nearly 10 years and he has been a kind, funny, and consistent friend, sending notes of encouragement
1:26.3	frequently. Sean is that kind of friend who does the work behind the scenes, the stuff
1:31.6	that no one ever talks about, knows about, or gets credit for.
1:36.0	I ask him on the show to talk about his latest novel called The Weight of Memory,
1:41.5	a book that I read in one day and loved, but our conversation actually
1:45.5	spans all kinds of topics, including whether or not we censor what our kids read, which
1:51.2	I thought was interesting. I got so caught up talking to Sean and
1:54.6	loving it that it took us nearly half an hour to get to the title of this episode,
1:59.1	books we wish we'd written, but we do get there and I love talking about books and writing with Sean.
2:06.8	For my secret stuff subscribers, secret stuff is my private Patreon podcast.
2:11.5	Sean and I have a whole separate conversation over there about
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