Julia Bartz, THE WRITING RETREAT

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to therapist, creative coach, and New York Times bestselling author Julia Bartz about The Writing Retreat, a pulse-pounding, claustrophobic, unputdownable thriller about a young author who attends an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a nightmare. Julia talks about the first iterations of this story and the changes it went through since 2014 NaNoWriMo, and then shares how her own frustrations as a writer (and dreams of attending a writing retreat!) inspired this novel. She also talks about her therapy work, being a writer alongside her sister Andrea Bartz, her love of thrillers (and the great one she is reading now), and what she is working on next.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
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0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.3	Julia Bartz is the author of The Writing Retreat, a novel. Julia is a Brooklyn-based writer
1:08.7	and practicing therapist. Her fiction writing has appeared in the South Dakota Review, in Digest Magazine, and more. The Writing Retreat is her first novel. Welcome, Julia. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the Writing Retreat. Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Oh, it's my pleasure. Could you please tell listeners what your book is about?
1:28.7	Yes.
1:29.5	So the writing retreat is about a woman named Alex, who has pretty much given up on her dreams of becoming a published writer when she receives the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a writing retreat that's being put on by her favorite author, the horror novelist
1:44.9	Rosa Vallow. So when Alex gets to the retreat, she finds out that not only is it a retreat,
1:50.8	it's also a contest. So Rosa is asking all of the attendees to write an entire book from scratch
1:57.8	during one month's time. It's a lot. At the end of the month, she is going to pick
2:03.7	her favorites and give that author a $1 million book deal. So Alex buckles down, is working on her
2:10.3	book, but soon starts seeing strange things happening around Rosa's potentially haunted estate.
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