Podcast time

Things have picked up a bit, but I'm deep in the trenches, finishing the final format for French Lessons. It shouldn't be taking this long, but my formatting program did an update and broke nearly everything. They added a collaborative feature, and while I might be able to collaborate with another person, I was unable to collaborate with my own document. I've now reverted to the old version, and things are whizzing along a bit more to expectation. 

In case you'd like to get away from the dumpster fire that is our world right now, I recently appeared on The Write Place podcast. It was a fun interview where we not only talk about the new book, but the business of writing generally. Have a listen, if you're so inclined. 

Insomnia

Rufus can always sleep.

I'll be 60 in January. No, I have no idea how that happened, and it's a topic for another day.

What I'm thinking about today - because I haven't slept - is another one of the benefits of aging. How much more I can get done be because I'm rarely tired at bedtime.

Peri- and then full-on menopause has been fun. Not. Would not recommend. Except for the parts that I would, like a better sense of what my body is going to do (gain weight, slow down, ache in random places) and the at-first-insulting but then rather wonderful realization that I'm now mostly invisible to a certain class of annoying people.

Which means I don't have to worry about impressing anyone except myself and the select few I care enough to want to impress. It's lovely.

All this to say, I couldn't sleep the other night. I listened to my favorite bedtime podcast, Nothing Much Happens, where a woman reads lovely, no conflict, low stakes stories that normally relax me and send me to sleep long before she's finished.

Except that night's episode was called The Pantry. It was a simple story about the kind of chores we put off, and how good cleaning and organizing your space can make you feel.

Not a good thing to tell me when I'm lying there, still with my tank half full. I wanted to get up and go down to the basement and organize things. I wanted to scrub the floor. That's how I knew I was stupid tired, because I never want to do that.

And guess what? Next day, did I get any of that done? 

Nope. 

Tomorrow is another day.

Podcast!

 

I recently had a great discussion with author Alison Treat on her podcast, Historical Fiction Unpacked. 

It's been a favorite listen for a while now, giving me more book recommendations than I'll ever have time to read, but isn't that just the way it is?

It's a short episode, only a skooch over a half hour. Here's a link to listen if you're interested. 

Podcast - Authors Over 50

Popping in for the third time this week with a little announcement - I told you earlier that I was a guest on the Authors over 50 podcast, and here it is!

You can listen/watch the episode here on YouTube, but if you'd rather have us in your ears while you're out enjoying the fine fall weather, you can download the episode from Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, or wherever you choose to listen.

If you enjoy the episode, I'd highly recommend you subscribe to the podcast to have weekly interviews delivered right to your ears. Julia is an excellent interviewer, and I enjoyed our conversation so much.

I hope you do, too. If you listen, leave a comment and tell me what you thought.

 

Podcast!

Last year, when I started seriously getting back into writing, I started listening to podcasts.

Now I've been a podcast fan for some time - I love the variety of topics out there, definitely something for every interest. But up until last summer, I hadn't thought about writing podcasts. I started in with one called The Worried Writer, and expanded from there. Podcasts on craft, style, technique, marketing, and other tips, tricks and knowledge I still don't have a use for, but find interesting anyway.

The thing about podcasts over books or articles on writing is that you're listening to real people - like yourself - talk about writing, and it makes it all seem doable. Which I always knew that it was, I just got away from it for a few years, and it was starting to bubble under the surface again.

One of the many podcasts I listen to is Wayne Kelly's Joined Up Writing Podcast. I responded to a couple of questions he'd posed on a show, and we got to emailing, and when I mentioned that my book was coming out in November, we arranged to record an episode together that aired on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

I think we were on the phone for over an hour, so he did a really nice job in cutting my blathering down to a solid twenty or so minutes, but I had a lot of fun talking with him, and I hope that my story is inspiring to someone who needs to hear a "real person" talking about how they got somewhere.

You can have a listen here, if you're so inclined.