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Tara Altebrando on “just doing it”, the writing life with two young kids, and thinking about audience…
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My very first guest for the very first episode of This Creative Life is Tara Altebrando, author, friend, collaborator. We talked about how our collaboration came to be, how she gets it all done with two small kids, and what went on in that cottage in Nova Scotia…
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Show Notes:
Tara Altebrando is the author of three novels for young adults: DREAMLAND SOCIAL CLUB, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS and WHAT HAPPENS HERE. She lives in Queens, New York, with her husband and two young daughters, Ellie and Violet. Her fourth YA novel, THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR (PATHETIC) LIFE*, is forthcoming from Dutton in July. Tara’s web site
(*Which, by the way is great–a fun, energetic read about high school seniors on a scavenger hunt. And I love that cover!)
Our collaboration is due out in later 2013, from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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If you’re not local, you can order signed copies from them and have them shipped and, if you like, gift wrapped. Also, if you’d like me to personalize a signed copy, we can make that happen.
And, of course, anywhere books are sold.
What a great idea for podcasts! How often are you planning to do one? I liked your comment about getting to be somewhere in between Tara’s “just do it” approach and your “angst-ing” over having enough fun.
Sara Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 4:56 pm
@Susan Houg, Thanks! It should be about every couple of weeks – the 1st and 15th of the month, I hope.
This is so good for me to hear. I am angsty. It is helpful to hear from someone who is Un-angsty. I don’t think I should be angsty. I am just hard-wired for angst. Angst and pragmatism can coexist. And I am a recovering overachiever. So this podcast made me feel better.
Sara Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 4:57 pm
@Kristen Pelfrey, Thanks for the feedback, Kristen! Also – I think you’ll hear, over the course of the podcast and from various guests – that a lot of us live with angst, and that’s okay, too.
Love this episode. I’m definitely tuning in for the next one. Thanks for starting a podcast on this subject. I have to push myself very hard to JUST WRITE; it helps to hear about process from other writers.
Sara Reply:
March 5th, 2012 at 11:07 am
@Jazz, So glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the feedback.
I really enjoyed this and am so glad you’re doing more. I have a book coming out this fall and am only now realizing it would have been helpful along the (long, painful) way to, you know, ever talk to another writer. Listening to you two talk about writing was great for me.