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Introducing Launch

Sorta Awesome

Cloud10

Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Three out of five people dream of writing a book. Few follow through. What does it take to make that dream into a reality? In this special preview we hear as John August (Go, Big Fish, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) takes his dream and turns it into a reality. Will it be successful? You’ll find out when we do. Subscribe to Launch today: www.wondery.fm/launch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Seeking the Truth Never Gets Old.

0:03.0

Introducing June's Journey, the free-to-play mobile game that will immerse you in a thrilling murder mystery.

0:09.0

Join June Parker as she uncovers hidden objects and clues to solve her sister's death in a beautifully

0:14.4

illustrated world set in the roaring 20s. With new chapters added every week,

0:19.3

the excitement never ends! Download June's journey now on your Never Ends.

0:29.0

Download June's Journey Now on your Android or iOS device or play on PC through Facebook games.

0:32.6

Everything is fuel for your creativity with the Lenovo Yoga laptop series.

0:34.4

From the people you meet to the creators you follow,

0:36.8

it all comes together with Lenovo Yoga.

0:39.2

Plus, you get a 50 pound travel voucher

0:41.6

and a shot at winning an awesome trip to New York and a Motorola

0:44.7

razor 40 Ultra. Check out the Lenovo Yoga series with laptops made for creatives at

0:49.8

Lenovo.com slash yoga, limited time only terms and conditions apply.

0:54.0

Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform.

0:58.0

Hey Awesoms, back in 2012 a book I co-authored was finally published more than four years after we first had the idea for that book.

1:10.0

I know firsthand that dreaming about writing a book is often very different from the reality of book publishing.

1:17.0

Screenwriter John August knows a thing or two about that too.

1:20.5

If you Google his name, you can see that he wrote Big Fish and the screenplay for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a bunch of other movies.

1:28.0

But two years ago, he started something he'd never done before and knew nothing about. He started writing a middle grade novel. He also

1:35.8

started recording himself and his interviews with agents, authors, publishers, everyone connected to his book and now it's a new show from Wondery called

1:45.0

launch. Will this book be a hit or a miss or something in between?

1:50.0

You'll know whether the book is a success when we do, but I think it's safe to say you'll love launch. Here's a preview.

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