Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Now normally this is where I would tell you that Sean Coyne is going to join me shortly and that he is the creator of StoryGrid

and the author of the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. But in this

episode, I'm doing something a little bit different. So Sean and I were on a really big project

this last week that I'll allude to here on this

episode and we'll be telling you more in the future.

So we didn't get to record an actual episode.

And I asked if I could just kind of take over this episode myself and talk a little bit about StoryGrid,

this podcast, how we got here, where we're at and where we're going.

This is episode 96.

We are just three weeks out from the two-year anniversary of our very first episode.

And as I've been thinking back on this, I've talked to a lot of listeners recently about how the podcast got started.

People have asked me what it's meant to me.

And so I thought I would just do an episode where I talk through some of this. So this episode won't be as long as normal and you're

just going to hear from me and you're not going to learn a lot about story. So if that bores you,

now is the time to skip over to a different podcast. But I just want to start at the

beginning when this thing actually got started. So I've talked about it a little bit on different

episodes, but if you haven't listened to all 95 previous episodes, you may have missed it.

So I do book marketing for a living. I did it as a

consultant for a long time. Still do it a little bit as a consultant. And then I also teach online

how authors can put their books out into the world, find their audience, and sell books.

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