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S5 BONUS: This Day in Literary History || Author Mark Schorr

S5 BONUS: This Day in Literary History || Author Mark Schorr

From#badasswriters


S5 BONUS: This Day in Literary History || Author Mark Schorr

From#badasswriters

ratings:
Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Dec 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Today is a special day in literary history! Listen to a new brief segment on the pod: This Day in Literary History! Then, catch Kat's convo with author Mark Schorr about:

His path to writing
Drawing from real-life experiences
Research
Going “incognito” to do internet searches
How federally-funded ESP experiments in the 1970s inspired his newest novel, The Mastermind
Getting nominated for an Edgar Award for his first book, Red Diamond Private Eye
The process of nominations and picking an Edgar winner
Getting followed and questioned by the FBI
The entire process of having novels optioned for film (and the payment that comes with it!)
What he’s working on next
Advice for writers
Boiling your book down to one word!

Connect with Mark on Twitter @schorrm and on his website at markschorr.com
Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes @_badasswriters @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. On IG, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites @badasswriters_podcast @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. Her websites are www.kathleenfoxx.com www.foxxeditorial.com and www.moodpitch.org
If you're interested in being a guest on the show, please fill out this form. Please note interview bookings are now full until mid-August 2023.
Submit a question to the podcast: click here.
Recommend a book or give a shoutout to someone who helped you immensely or to your readers in general: record a short voice memo and email it to badasswriters@kathleenfoxx.com, and I'll air it on the pod! More details on my website here.
Submit an interesting literary fact for This Day in Literary History: click here.
Music credits: Intro and Exit music and in between segments is Bathtime Funk by All Good Folks (uppbeat.io). Music during This Day in Literary History: A Ten-Course Banquet by David Celeste (epidemicsound.com)
Released:
Dec 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to the badasswriters podcast! Here you'll find writing tips and how-to's to take your writing from good to great. After going over each episode's advice, stay tuned for interviews with some fabulous guest authors who talk about their writing journey, wherever they might be in it, to help other writers in the community build their confidence and go from brand new to badass! I cover all writing topics, and if there's something you'd like to see covered, please reach out on Twitter @_badasswriters!