June Bonus Episode with Julie Carrick Dalton and Kerryn Mayne

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

How To, Books, Education, Fiction, Arts

4.8 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today's episode is sponsored by Riverside.fm. Using the promo code TSNOTYAW offers you a 15% discount on all individual plans! Click here for more info!

In today's Bonus Episode, we have two amazing author interviews!

Bianca chats with returning guest Julie Carrick Dalton, author of The Last Beekeeper, about dual timelines vs flashbacks; POV strategy; writing from a place of rage vs a place of fear; including hope in your story while confronting fears; having readers absorb important information while you’re still entertaining them with your story; and balancing what you believe in vs preaching to your readers.

After which, Bianca and Kerryn Mayne, author of Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (which has since sold in the US market to St. Martin’s Press) chat about Kerryn's experience querying; publishing in markets outside the US; writing in a genre that relates to her career; and Kerryn's take on writing groups.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi there and welcome to our show. The Shit No One Tells You about writing. I'm Bianca
0:12.7	Marais and I'm joined by Carly Waters and Cici Lira from PS Literary Agency. It's a new year and time to get fresh eyes on your work in progress.
0:24.7	Are you looking for beta readers, some of whom might potentially become writing group members
0:29.2	down the line?
0:30.2	Are you wanting to be matched up with those writing in a similar genre and or time zone
0:35.3	so they can critique your work as you critique theirs at the same time.
0:39.3	Your manuscript doesn't have to be complete to sign up for this 3,000 word evaluation.
0:44.8	This matchup will be open to registrations from now until the 2nd of March with the
0:49.9	matchup emails going out on the 3rd of March.
0:53.1	Always such an exciting day. For more information
0:56.3	and to register, go to Bianca Moray.com and go to the Beta Reader Matchup tab. And please spread
1:02.8	the word, even if you aren't joining the matchup this time. The more writers we have signed up,
1:08.6	the better the matches will be. Hello from Cici. I'm so excited to
1:13.7	announce an all new class called Starting It Right, which is all about how to begin your story
1:18.7	in the best place and in the best way. Now, this is going to be a four-day class, so come prepared
1:24.1	to take lots of notes. We'll cover the different types of beginnings and how to choose the best one for your story,
1:30.9	how to frame your inciting incident in a compelling way, common mistakes writers make when
1:36.1	starting a story, how to balance exposition and mystery, how to make readers connect with
1:41.6	your protagonist, and how to make the reader want to turn to the next chapter, and so much more.
1:48.0	And guess what?
1:50.0	For the first time ever, there will be an interactive component to my class.
1:54.0	Everyone who is registered will have the option of sending in the opening scene of their work
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