You are listening to a Catholic feminist minisode.

Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed,

inspired, and intentional.

I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you guys through what this is and

where it came from and why I am sharing it with you the Catholic feminist

listeners. I am launching a new podcast. Before we go on I want to

make it clear that the Catholic feminist is not going anywhere. You can still

expect new episodes every Wednesday from the Catholic feminist about women and the church

and our place in faith, so don't be worried about that.

But I am launching a new podcast completely unrelated to the Catholic feminist and I wanted to share

it with you for a few different reasons.

So first of all, the podcast is called Making a Middle Grade.

As so many of you know, my day job is actually being a children's book author and my first novel

for kids is coming out in May 2020. So I created a show called Making a Middle Grade that's going to be only 10

episodes long, so it's kind of a mini abbreviated show. It's going to air starting on September 3rd of this year, so in just a few weeks,

until June of 2020 once a month, and it's going to walk people through how a book is made,

how it goes from a daydream and an author's head to like a real life book that you can buy in a store.

Specifically we're talking about traditional publishing of fiction.

So I created this because when I went down the fiction writing route, it was a lifelong dream of mine,

but I had no idea how so much of this worked. I had no clue how a book got made. I knew that they got written and that they were in

stores but I didn't know what happened in between. And yes I've written Gerelour guys

and I'm so so blessed and lucky that that was my first book published by Ave Maria

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