HeyJaredPage One Podcast
Master storytellers discuss the stories and struggles that go into writing the first page of their books. Why? Because the first page is often the most re-written page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—HOOK YOU.
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EP 65: OPEN THE FLOOD GATES_NINA SCHUYLER (opens the original)
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In EP. 65, host Holly Lynn Payne welcomes award-winning Bay Area author Nina Schuyler back to The Page One podcast to discuss Schuyler’s fifth novel, Open the Floodgates, inspired by real-world laws granting personhood to rivers. Schuyler discusses her choice to make the river a point-of-view character and to visually shape the text so it sways across the page to mimic water’s movement and the river’s disorientation with “clock time” and court. They explore the legal and psychological shift from
EP 64: FREYJA_Margret Ann Thors (opens the original)
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In EP. 64, I interview Icelandic author Margaret Ann Thors about her gripping debut thriller, FREYJA, set in Reykjavik and steeped in Icelandic folklore. Thors explains how the novel evolved through multiple iterations—from an early draft centered on a male protagonist shaped by her near-death experience (a 2010 stroke caused by a hole in her heart from birth) to a version unlocked by motherhood and a willingness to blend literary prose with suspense. We dig deep into using skepticism within the
EP 63: The Forest Becomes Her_Julie Carrick Dalton (opens the original)
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In EPISODE 63, I interview author Julie Carrick Dalton about her latest book, The Forest Becomes Her. I love this episode as it captures an uncommon conversation in traditional publishing about working collaboratively with both agent and editor. I rarely hear authors discuss how much they love the input of their publishing team, and that winning combination for Julie Carrick Dalton resulted in a wise decision to use three points of view in her latest novel.. Julie shares openly about revising ne
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