Creative, Inspired, ALIVE
Interviews with amazing authors and leading creativity experts about the creative process, the love of their craft, their biggest successes and disappointments, and of course, their latest books.
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Building a Hybrid Author Career with Bestselling Romantasy Author, Helen Scheuerer (opens the original)
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Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest today, Helen Scheuerer, is the Sunday Times bestselling romantasy author praised for their strong, flawed heroines and action-packed plots. Helen built her career as an indie author, and her new trilogy is published with Penguin and Simon & Schuster. Her latest book, Kiss of the Black Flame , the first in The Bookbinder’s Barga
Running a Literary Agency & Debuting a Novel with Catherine Cho (opens the original)
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Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Catherine Cho, is the acclaimed author of The Devoted and the memoir Inferno . She was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2020 and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Catherine also runs her own literary agency, Paper Literary . Originally from the United States, she now lives with her family in Londo
Award-winning Writer and Showrunner Mara Brock Akil on her Literary Debut (opens the original)
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Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, Mara Brock Akil , is an award-winning writer, producer, director, and showrunner. At the age of 30, she became the youngest African American showrunner on broadcast network television with her sitcom Girlfriends . She created BET’s first drama series, Being Mary Jane , and co-created the romantic drama, Love Is, on OWN. She fo
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