Working: How Stuart Gibbs Writes Mysteries for Kids
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | heard about Magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from GoDaddy. |
| 0:03.3 | One day the owners alike, this business hasn't reached this potential |
| 0:07.1 | and the other one goes, we need a bigger piece of the pie and then it hits her. |
| 0:11.1 | We need GoDaddy. Look, we can get a domain name and create an online store |
| 0:14.8 | so we can sell to more customers. |
| 0:16.8 | Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies to a vlogging nationwide |
| 0:20.9 | and now everyone's like, vegan pies are the new thing around here. |
| 0:25.0 | Wait, no me! Take the next step on your business journey with GoDaddy. |
| 0:35.6 | Writing middle grade, writing for kids who are in third, fourth, fifth, sixth grade, |
| 0:40.4 | that's just like the sweet spot for school visits. |
| 0:43.4 | You do occasionally talk to somebody who writes young adults who's moved in the middle grade |
| 0:48.1 | so they've been going to high schools and talking to high school students and then they come talk to |
| 0:52.1 | kids in fourth and fifth grade and they're like, oh my god, I'm never going to go talk to |
| 0:55.2 | teenagers again in my life. This is so much better. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, June Thomas. |
| 1:03.6 | And I'm your other host, Romano Lomb. |
| 1:05.8 | Romano. The voice we just heard belongs to Stuart Gibbs, who is a writer of middle grade books, |
| 1:12.3 | a term I need you to educate me on very soon. But before we get to that, |
| 1:17.3 | I noticed from your excellent Twitter feed that you seem to be on a bit of a spring cleaning |
| 1:23.2 | jag right now, does that fever extend to your creative life? |
| 1:28.2 | I think it's mostly in so far as it's a form of denial or distraction from that creative life. |
| 1:33.9 | I do have a couple of pretty big projects that I meant to be working on. |
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