Episode 154: Author Nicole Blades

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Episode 154: Author Nicole Blades

FromWriter's Bone

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Nov 14, 2016

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Nicole Blades, author of The Thunder Beneath Us and Earth’s Waters, talks to Daniel Ford about her lifelong love of reading and writing, how she developed the character Best Lightburn, and why writers need to use their own voices to write the stories they would want to read.

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Nov 14, 2016

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