• Some 2024 Announcements!
    Feb 21 2024

    What's going on with This Creative Life? What am I doing? How old am I? Is there going to be a new podcast in this feed? All these questions and more answered in under 6 minutes!

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  • 87. Ashley C. Ford and the Ultimate Pivot - TCL Finale (?)
    Nov 8 2023

    I know you’ve been waiting a long time on a wish and a promise for this final episode in the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series. I appreciate your patience while I went and figured out myself and my own potential pivots and reinventions!

    The wait is over and I present to you my conversation with Ashley C. Ford, bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughterand lots more.

    I’m so grateful to Ashley for her time and generosity in this conversation. I know you’re going to love it as much as I did.

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    Somebody’s Daughter

    The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

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  • Audio Updates - October, 2023
    Oct 28 2023

    Fall updates! New interview episode coming in November.

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    9 mins
  • TCL Mini: Updates & the Future
    Jun 21 2023

    News about my next book, and an opportunity for space that I am taking!

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    This Creative Life ebook on sale for $2.99 through June!

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    10 mins
  • TCL Mini: The Writing Life Audit
    Mar 22 2023

    This is the audio version of the most recent newsletter PLUS some thoughts about what's next for the pod.

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    18 mins
  • 86. Melissa Walker Takes Action
    Mar 8 2023

    In late 2016, Melissa Walker was working on her 10th novel when she went to a holiday party and heard then Senator Daniel Squadron talk about the importance of state-level politics—even for the national landscape. She was inspired to take action. That action eventually grew into a pivot from full-time writing to full-time work with The States Project.

    This conversation is everything I wanted from the Pivots, Comebacks and Reinventions series. It’s a great example of how passion and purpose can realign for a season or a reason, while the writing is still always there. It got surprisingly emotional for both of us; I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

    (This conversation is explicitly political in places, which may or may not be your jam!)

    Selected Links:

    The States Project - get involved

    Melissa's books

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    Thanks to Dave Connis for the theme music.

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    55 mins
  • TCL Mini: No Sure Things
    Jan 5 2023

    The audio version of this week's newsletter on living with the uncertainty of writing.

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    8 mins
  • 85. The Publishing Year in Review with Agent Michael Bourret
    Dec 21 2022

    From the supply chain issues that started the year, to the conversation about AI that's ending it, I talk through the year in publishing with Michael Bourret of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Also, we answer listener questions!

    This will be the last episode for the year, and the last one before a break during which I'll go off to Boston to teach and maybe even revise my novel. I'll be back (most likely in February) to pick up the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series. 

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    Thanks to Dave Connis for the theme music

    Happy Holidays!

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    1 hr and 8 mins