May Bonus Episode: All the Romance & We Answer Your Questions & Give You Comps
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra
4.8 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is sponsored by HelloFresh. Go to HelloFresh dot com slash tsnotyaw16 and use code tsnotyaw16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping!
In today's bumper Bonus Episode, we chat with two internationally bestselling authors in the romance genre before taking your questions and giving you comp titles.
CeCe kicks us off by interviewing Carley Fortune, author of Meet Me at the Lake, about planting curiosity seeds; the editing process; the struggle with negative self-talk when writing; the development of Carley's characters; and creating chemistry amongst characters.
After which, Carly chats with Emily Henry, author of Happy Place about dialogue; facets of success; masculinity in literature; healthy conflict with characters; her book covers; and her potential involvement in the film adaptations of her books.
Carly and CeCe then take all your questions!
Finally, Bianca chats with Emilie Sommer from East City Book Shop and RJ Witherow of Parnassus Books as they give comps recommendations.
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More information about Carley can be found at www.carleyfortune.com. She’s on Instagram @carleyfortune
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Emilie can be found at @emiliegsommer on Instagram and East City Book Shop can be found at www.eastcitybookshop.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there and welcome to our show. |
| 0:09.1 | The shit no one tells you about writing. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Bianca Murray and I'm joined by Carly Waters and Cici Lira from PS Literary Agency. |
| 0:19.7 | It's a new year and time to get fresh eyes on your work in progress. Are you |
| 0:24.5 | looking for beta readers, some of whom might potentially become writing group members down the line? |
| 0:29.7 | Are you wanting to be matched up with those writing in a similar genre and or time zone |
| 0:34.8 | so they can critique your work as you critique theirs at the same time. |
| 0:38.8 | Your manuscript doesn't have to be complete to sign up for this 3,000 word evaluation. |
| 0:44.3 | This matchup will be open to registrations from now until the 2nd of March |
| 0:48.8 | with the matchup emails going out on the 3rd of March. |
| 0:52.4 | Always such an exciting day. For more information and to register, |
| 0:57.1 | go to bianca-maray.com and go to the beta reader matchup tab. And please spread the word, |
| 1:03.0 | even if you aren't joining the matchup this time. The more writers we have signed up, |
| 1:08.2 | the better the matches will be. Hello from Cici. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm so excited to announce an all-new class called Starting It Right, |
| 1:16.3 | which is all about how to begin your story in the best place and in the best way. |
| 1:20.8 | Now, this is going to be a four-day class, so come prepared to take lots of notes. |
| 1:25.4 | We'll cover the different types of beginnings and how to choose |
| 1:28.2 | the best one for your story, how to frame your inciting incident in a compelling way, common |
| 1:33.9 | mistakes writers make when starting a story, how to balance exposition and mystery, how to |
| 1:39.9 | make readers connect with your protagonist, and how to make the reader want to turn to the next |
| 1:45.6 | chapter and so much more and guess what for the first time ever there will be an interactive |
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