What Were You Thinking?
by Dana GoldsteinA podcast that invites authors to share the evolution of their books from the "What If" musings to the words on the page.
Copyright: Dana Goldstein
Episodes
Season 4, Episode 9: Sticking with your skill set - Charlotte Stein, When Grumpy Met Sunshine
43m · PublishedIf you've been paying attention, you've seen copies of When Grumpy Met Sunshine online, in bookstores, and even grocery stores. But Charlotte Stein is not an overnight success: she's been writing and publishing for 15 years.
Visit Charlotte's website.
Season 4, Episode 8: Bringing together many stories - The Many Mothers Anthology
54m · PublishedSeason 4, Epsiode 7: The lyrics of Novels-in-Verse - Megan E Freeman, Alone
47m · PublishedWhen Megan Freeman first started to write Alone, it was a typical middle grade novel. Despite some good feedback, the book never found its wings. She left it...ahem...alone for a while, and it wasn't until she took a workshop about novels-in-verse that the shape of what Alone could be took form. And then it took off.
Season 4, Episode 6: Managing the Big Debut - Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made
46m · PublishedWhen Vanessa Chan left her job at Facebook to get her MFA, she had no idea how to write a novel. From a throwaway homework assignment, the first stirrings of the novel she would write emerged. The Storm We Made went to auction, with 11 houses vying for the debut novel. It's not the typical journey, but it makes for a great conversation.
Season 4, Episode 5: Finding the Right Words with Award-Winning Literary Translator Susan Ouriou
47m · PublishedI had no idea how complicated translation a novel cou;d be. A ward-winning translator Susan Ouriou set me straight. It takes a level of dedication, experience and knowledge to esentially re-write a book from a langugage you;ve learned inot your mother tongue. Susan Ouriou does it so well, she has earned the Governor General's Award and was appointed a Chevalier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Find Susan and her work at any of the following websites:
https://www.attlc-ltac.org/en/translator/susan-ouriou-en/
https://wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/view/susan-ouriou/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Ouriou
https://www.fitzhenry.ca/susan-ouriou
https://www.reddeerpress.com/susan-ouriou
Season 4, Episode 4: From editor to accomplished writer - Barbara Joan Scott, The Taste of Hunger
50m · PublishedI already know The Taste of Hunger will fall into my top 10 books for 2024. I cheered for despicable characters, I wanted the best for all of them, like they were real people in my life. It's a magnificent read.
BIO: Barbara Joan Scott has been in love with words her whole life, whether as a reader, writer, instructor of English Literature and Creative Writing, freelance editor, or musician with a special affinity for lyrics.​Her first book,The Quick, won the Writers' Guild of Alberta Howard O'Hagan for Best Collection of Short Fiction, and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award for Best Book.The Taste of Hungeris her first novel.
She lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta.
Watch Wakefield Brewster in action.
Visit Barbara's website.
Buy the book.
Season 4, Episode 3: Finding your way through practice - Robin Van Eck, Rough
50m · PublishedVisit Robin's website.
Learn more and check out the ciourses and workshops offered by the Alexandra Writers' Centre Society.
Season 4, Episode 2: A wild career path - Karma Brown, What Wild Women Do
41m · PublishedIf you take a bird's eye view of Karma Brown's writing career, it does look a bit wild. First a journalist, then a magazine writer, and now a novelist whose books cross many genres.
Learn more about Karma.
Check out the adventures on Outward Bound Canada.
Season 4, Episode 1: Writing the coolest puberty book - Gina Loveless, Puberty is Gross, but also Really Awesome
47m · PublishedVisit Gina's website.
Season 3, Episode 23: WWYT Host Dana Goldstein on This Is Not Your Average Book Club
1h 14m · PublishedIt's the close of another season of What Were You Thinking. This year, I'm ending with my interview with Karen Sokoloff, who runs TINYABC - This Is Not Your Average Book Club. She had me join the book club for an hour of chat, laughter and Q&A.
You can listen to Karen's episode on this podcast here.
What Were You Thinking? has 78 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 52:48:44. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 16th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 17th, 2024 22:11.