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BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE
David Yontef
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Introducing 1. IDEA (Part 1) from How To Write A Book.
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In this first episode of How to Write a Book, Elizabeth Day’s new podclass series, hosts Sara Collins, Sharmaine Lovegrove and Nelle Andrew discuss coming up with ideas.
Just where do ideas for books come from? How do you know if they’re any good, or even if they’re right for you to pursue? Our expert podclass provides answers to all of this - and even a lesson in how to know when your idea might be ready to send to an agent.
And we could not have a more experienced bunch to guide you on this journey. Sara Collins is the bestselling novelist and screenwriter currently serving as a judge for the 2024 Booker Prize. Her debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, won the Costa book awards in 2019 and she later wrote the TV screenplay. Nelle Andrew is a literary agent and former Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards, and Sharmaine Lovegrove is the co-founder and managing director of Dialogue Books, an inclusive imprint at a major publishing house. Each of them is an expert in one stage of the publishing journey…. and all are literary nerds (in the best possible way).
Together, Sara, Sharmaine and Nelle are your on-hand writing community giving you the push you need to get started on that novel, memoir, or piece of non fiction you've always dreamed of writing.
We hope you enjoy our part 1 & part 2 on IDEA. If you don’t want to wait for next week’s episode, you can subscribe now and binge them all at once by tapping ‘subscribe’. You’ll get to listen to all episodes ad-free and get exclusive subscriber access to How To Fail and Failing With Friends.
Books discussed in these episodes include:
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day
• Paradise City by Elizabeth Day
• Magpie by Elizabeth Day
We also talk about Christopher Booker, Kit de Waal, The Seven Basic Plots and Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park.
Executive produced by Elizabeth Day for Daylight Productions and Carly Maile for Sony Music Entertainment.
Produced by Imogen Serwotka.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Elizabeth Day, author and podcaster and executive producer of how to write a book. |
| 0:12.0 | You might know me from my other podcast How to |
| 0:14.3 | Fail or from reading one of my books, but this podcast isn't actually about me. |
| 0:19.2 | It's about you. How to write a book is a podcast masterclass. A pod class in fact and over the next 12 weeks we'll take you from developing characters to experimenting with your voice and getting your finished manuscript ready for publication. |
| 0:36.8 | We want you to think of us as your on-hand writing community, |
| 0:40.7 | giving you the push you need to get started on that novel, |
| 0:44.4 | memoir, or piece of non-fiction you've always dreamed of writing. |
| 0:48.6 | And even if you've no intention of writing anything, this is also a podcast that allows you to draw the curtain back on the world of books. |
| 0:58.0 | Every week, you'll get an exclusive insight into how and why our most celebrated writers wrote the books they did and what it really |
| 1:06.5 | means to create unforgettable stories. Because we all have a story in us. |
| 1:13.5 | But how do we get it out there? |
| 1:16.1 | To guide you through the process, |
| 1:17.6 | I've brought together three amazing women. |
| 1:20.8 | You'll hear from best-selling novelists, screenwriter, and 2024 Booker Prize Judge, |
| 1:25.8 | Sarah Collins. |
| 1:27.0 | I think it's quite apt that we start with a moment of failure as well because, or me, |
| 1:32.4 | accepting that failure is built into the whole process of writing a novel is |
| 1:36.7 | step number one and we fail to start but now we shall start to fail. |
| 1:41.6 | Former agent of the year at the British Book Awards, |
| 1:44.2 | Nell Andrew. |
| 1:45.4 | We get to take our collective wisdom, hopefully, |
| 1:49.8 | and a lot of our sass and translate it into something that I hope will be actually really practical and help people create better books and have the confidence to tell their stories in the first place. |
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