Who Killed My Mother? Writing And Podcasting True Crime Memoir With Kory Shrum
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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On July 4, 2020, Kory Shrum received two phone calls. One from her uncle, saying her mother was found dead in her bedroom from an overdose. A second from a homicide detective saying he believes it was murder—and her uncle is the suspect. In this interview, Kory talks about how she turned her trauma into […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 580 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 22nd of October 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:42.2 | In today's show, I'm talking to Corrie Schrum about writing and podcasting her true crime memoir, |
| 0:48.8 | Who Killed My Mother? So I was a little nervous about talking to Corrie about what was and still is a very |
| 0:56.7 | difficult time in her life. I thought it might be a bit intense and raw and all of that, but |
| 1:02.0 | Corey is super professional and she has some great insights about working through trauma in writing, |
| 1:09.2 | separating the emotional side of things from the |
| 1:12.2 | publishing and business side, and how important it was to share this story in her own voice |
| 1:17.6 | through a podcast as well as the book. So it's a really interesting interview and I guess a bit |
| 1:24.4 | like me on the dark side of things. Corrie has her darkness, but her public persona is very upbeat. |
| 1:31.3 | So we actually have, I guess, quite a jolly discussion about what is a very difficult topic. |
| 1:37.8 | So that is coming up in the interview segment. |
| 1:42.5 | In Publishing and Book Marketing News. So Frankfurt Book Fair is on right now in Germany as I |
| 1:48.6 | record this and although physical attendance is unsurprisingly down, they seem to be pretty positive |
| 1:54.4 | about recovery from the pandemic, which in fact has been a transformative time for traditional |
| 2:00.0 | publishing in many ways and the industry's done |
| 2:03.3 | really well. So it has actually taken the pandemic to push traditional publishing over the edge |
| 2:08.7 | into fully embracing digital publishing and book marketing. And Penguin Random House's worldwide |
| 2:15.3 | CEO, Marcus Dole, did one of the opening keynotes at Frankfurt. |
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