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#124 Essays on Loneliness: Tethering An Isolated Writer To A Disconnected World 

Estelle Erasmus chats with Athena Dixon about crafting her memoir-in-essays, selecting throughlines, using various vessels to convey a message, deciding your memoir’s format and more.…

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#123 Writing About Trauma Using Timelines, Throughlines, and Imagery with Christie Tate

Estelle Erasmus chats with Christie Tate about how she wrote Group, and used her therapy process to help structure her memoir…

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#122 Crafting A Tsunami of Transformation in Memoir with Hannah Sward

Estelle Erasmus chats with memoirist and author of Strip, Hannah Sward on excavating childhood memories, distilling scene and setting from her father’s poems, and writing her story of finding herself, and reclaiming her voice through writing.…

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#121 A Deep Dive into Hachette’s Legacy Lit Imprint Featuring Publisher, Krishan Trotman

I first connected with Krishan Trotman when we both were keynote speakers at the recent ASJA Virtual Conference. She opened the conference, and with my fireside chat with legend Abigail Thomas, I closed the conference.…

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#120 Writing Days of Wonder Featuring Caroline Leavitt

Estelle Erasmus chats with bestselling author Caroline Leavitt about writing, structuring, processing, editing, and revising her latest novel, Days of Wonder, and the rigors of publishing.…

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#119 Solo Episode: Estelle’s Edge on Steering Through The Publishing Gauntlet

Estelle Erasmus shares her forecast for publishing in 2025, and how to navigate some of the clear pitfalls ahead.…

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#118 Reflections on Writing for Next Avenue/PBS with Managing Editor Julie Pfitzinger

Estelle Erasmus chats with Managing Editor of Next Avenue, Julie Pfitzinger on what it takes to pitch and get published on the site.…

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#117 The Magical Metamorphosis Of Character Development Featuring Ann Garvin

Estelle Erasmus speaks with Ann Garvin, author of Bummer Camp about the process of writing her novel, and the how she works hard to transform characters throughout the story.…

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#116 Conversations with Abby: Ruminations on Writing Featuring Abigail Thomas

Estelle Erasmus discusses the writing life with Abigail Thomas, and her new book Still Life at Eighty, now published by Scribner.…

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#115 Coaching Episode: Estelle’s Edge on Crafting Notable Narratives

Estelle Erasmus coaches writer Deborah Copperud in this episode, and helps her figure out her focus with a specific exercise from her book, plus guides her through a story idea, and more.…

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#114 Spotlighting Sibling Friction in Fiction Featuring Betsy Lerner

Estelle Erasmus, author of Writing That Gets Noticed talks to publishing pro Betsy Lerner about her debut novel Shred Sisters, the power of good transitions, crafting compelling characters, the struggle with structure, and more.…

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#113 Writing With Ambition Featuring Kristi Coulter

Estelle Erasmus speaks with author, Kristi Coulter on writing memoir, choosing a tense, what to leave out (and in), how to imbue humor into your work, the difference between scene and summary and more.…

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