Podcast host Matthew Félix talks with authors Laurie Ann Doyle and Ryan Sloan about community: What is it, really? Why is it so important to us as writers? How do we find it? Sharing their own personal stories, as well as their respective experiences in academia, participating in writers groups and organizations, and organizing literary
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Get Inspired by Art with Mary Rakow: Writing with Hope and Courage
by Mary Rakow INTRODUCTION In an earlier post I suggested that images can be our companions over the course of our writing career. This is true. But we’re not always aware of it. As Steve Jobs said in his masterful commencement address to students at Stanford, “We can’t connect the dots looking forward. We can
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Storytelling and Public Speaking
by Kate Farrell Success in public speaking depends on a direct relationship with your audience and nothing is better than storytelling to create that rapport. Story Power The telling of stories is a tantalizing art—the magnetism of a good story is strong, drawing in the audience. Even if you share a hilarious tale worthy of
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Murder and Craft with Red Riviera’s David Downie
David Downie is a native San Franciscan who moved to Paris in the mid-1980s and now divides his time between France and Italy. His travel, food, and arts features have appeared in more than 50 print magazines and newspapers worldwide and on dozens of websites. David is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books, one
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Feeding the hungry reader: The business of self-publishing with Amanda Clay
by Amanda Clay Over the past few months, we’ve talked through some key foundations to the business of indie publishing—why you might consider it, the various platforms, and the basic upfront costs and earning potential. Hopefully you’re still intrigued about this creative and independent endeavor! But a question you might be asking yourself is, what
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When and How to Work with a Freelance Editor to Publish Your Book
by Kristen Tate You’ve reached the finish line: you have a book manuscript you’ve revised and polished until it reflects your ideas and your vision. What’s next? Some writers will jump right into querying agents. Others will know they want to self-publish. When in the process should you look for professional editorial feedback for your
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Making Money & the Author Mindset with NYTimes Bestseller Joanna Penn
Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author under the pseudonym J.F. Penn. She has written more than 30 books and sold over 600,000 of them in 149 countries and 6 languages. Joanna is also a podcaster whose The Creative Penn Podcast has been downloaded
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Get Inspired by Art with Mary Rakow: What wonder brings to your writing
by Mary Rakow INTRODUCTION: Let’s review Over the past couple of months, we’ve explored how (1) Great art is vast and contains emptiness. When we enter that emptiness, we are changed. When we take our characters into that emptiness, they are changed. (2) Great art can inspire us years after we see it. (3) Art
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From Unknown to National Expert in A Year
By Joey Garcia When Karlee Vincent attended Writing for Change in 2019, she was an unpublished, unknown writer. In 2020, she was interviewed by Ms. Magazine, CNN.com, The Tamron Hall Show and joined the TODAY Parenting Team, the TODAY Show’s blog for raising children. Her first essay for Red Tricycle gained 65 shares in ten
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Kirstin Valdez Quade on The Five Wounds & Writing into Uncertainty
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds. Her previous book, Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and was also named a New York Times Notable Book. Kirstin talked about the rural New Mexico setting in which the book takes place, including its Latinx population, the drug
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