Writing And Publishing Literary Fiction With Roz Morris
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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How do you know when the seed of an idea is enough for a novel? What makes literary fiction different from other genres? Roz Morris shares her writing process from idea to the publication of Ever Rest. In the intro, my experience of COVID, my interview on Story of a Storyteller, and A Mouthful of […]
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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. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 564 of the podcast. and it is Monday the 26th of July 2021, as I record |
| 0:42.1 | this, later than usual, as I am on the mend and still in quarantine with COVID. |
| 0:48.9 | More on that in the personal section coming up. |
| 0:52.9 | In today's show, I'm talking to Ros Morris about writing, |
| 0:56.4 | publishing and marketing literary fiction. Now, I loved Ros's latest book, Everrest, which has |
| 1:03.4 | taken her years to write. And we discuss the definition of literary fiction. How do you know |
| 1:09.0 | when an idea is good enough to be a novel, why emotion |
| 1:12.2 | is so important, Ros's writing and editing process, as well as choices around publication and |
| 1:18.0 | marketing. Whatever genre you write, I know you'll find it interesting, and one of her thoughts |
| 1:23.6 | stays with me in particular. I don't necessarily expect to make a lot of money from publishing |
| 1:29.1 | literary fiction, but what I expect to be able to do is create my honest art. And I love that. So let's all |
| 1:37.2 | create our honest art, whatever genre we write in. So that's coming up in the interview segment. |
| 1:45.2 | So my personal update, I'm alive, which is very exciting. But yeah, I recorded the intro to last |
| 1:54.2 | week show on like a week ago Friday and I mentioned a pandemic slump. And I was actually |
| 2:00.5 | feeling pretty down and pretty low. |
| 2:03.1 | Turned out I had COVID or I still have the end of COVID but I'm on the men now, although I'm |
| 2:08.7 | still pretty tired, which you can probably hear in my voice. Now I am taking it easy. I wasn't |
| 2:13.2 | going to podcast today but I woke up and was like do you know what I am almost better so here we go |
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