Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy Christie

Just a few thoughts on why we have to believe that our creativity, like a garden bed, can produce results. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!   Follow me on social media: Goodreads   *   X/Twitter   *   Facebook   *  TikTok  *  Instagram *   LinkedIn   *   Pinterest   *...

Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t let milestone birthdays stop us in our creative tracks. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!   Follow me on social media: Goodreads   *   X/Twitter   *   Facebook   *  TikTok  *  Instagram *   LinkedIn   *   Pinterest   *   Medium  ...

As an amateur genealogist and family historian, Eric Walker was impelled to write his debut novel Lost Souls Recovered when he discovered the richness of family stories through research of historical documents and those stories told to him by relatives. As he read historical documents and talked to relatives, he envisioned a way to bring to life in fiction form many of his ancestors who lived a ha...

Just a few thoughts on why we need to do “different” to have “different.” Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Michael Bourne is the author of Blithedale Canyon (Regal House, 2022). He is a long-time contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and he has written for the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, The Economist, Literary Hub, and Salon. His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines including, most recently, december, The Southampton Review, and Tin House. Blithedale Can...

Just a few thoughts on the importance of being willing to make revisions: in writing and in life. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Molly Giles is the award-winning author of six story collections and two novels. Rough Translations won The Flannery O’Connor Prize the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award. Other notable accolades have been awarded from the Small Press Best Fiction Award for Creek Walk, which also earned a Commonwealth Silver Medal Award for Fiction, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Bo...

Just a few thoughts on why we need to take regular breaks to refresh and renew our creative spirit.   Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Gillian Felix has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pencil, and as of this writing, she is the author of 10 books. She enjoys creating characters that could be your next-door neighbor, but would you want them as your neighbor is another story. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Miss Felix moved to the United States in 1998. She has been involved in the entertainment industry for ov...

Just a few thoughts on why our focus as authors should be on building relationships, not just on selling books. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Mary Ann Marazzi is an Egyptologist with a doctoral degree in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology/Egyptology, who has 27 years of experience working at archaeological sites in the US, Italy, and Egypt. She has taught art history and world cultures at colleges and universities, edits academic journals and has written numerous articles for educational publications and children’s magazines. For...

Just a few thoughts on why we need to put our money (and time) where our mouth is when it comes to our writing career.   Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Just a few thoughts on why it’s important to pay attention when Opportunity knocks and then decide how to handle the summons.   Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Over her fifty-year career, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard has published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir At Home in the World and the novels To Die For and Labor Day, both adapted for film. Maynard’s newest novel, The Bird Hotel, was published May 2023. How the Light Gets In, the sequel to her novel, Count the Ways-- n...

Just a few thoughts on why it’s important to learn to “enjoy the ride” when writing.   Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Cecelia Tichi is the author of the “Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded Series,” mystery crime novels that pulse with turn-of-the-century American life…and death. An award-winning author and Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University, her nonfiction and fiction books have focused on the decades of America's industrial titans, the "Queens" of Society and the U.S. Gilded Age....

Just a few thoughts on why writers need a personal manifesto to keep them on track.   Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Deborah Kalb is the author of the forthcoming adult novel Off to Join the Circus (available on Bookshop , Barnes & Noble and Amazon ) as well as three novels for kids: Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat, John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead, and George Washington and the Magic Hat. Together with her father, Marvin Kalb, she co-authored Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Preside...

Just a few thoughts on why writers must be willing to explore new genres with their writing.   Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Carissa Turpin is the author of the novel, Doomsday Dani . Carissa grew up in a small Eastern Kentucky town where she fell in love with storytelling in all its forms. She began teaching high school English in 2008 near her hometown, where she remained for ten years, before relocating to Phoenix, Arizona where she made the switch to teaching middle school. In 2021, Carissa left Arizona and returned...

Just a few thoughts on why we must stop believing that our age defines our possibilities. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Just a few thoughts on why we need to take the time to acknowledge our achievements and savor our successes. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Peter Berk is the son of noted writer Howard Berk, whose credits included Columbo, Mission: Impossible and several novels and features. Peter has co-written several screenplays with his father, and on his own has written a recently-optioned sci-fi/time travel TV pilot, seven scripts and five novels in the TimeLock series, the first of which was published in late 2022 and is available here . He als...

Just a few thoughts on why we need to show our writing self some love on a consistent basis. Did you enjoy this excerpt from my writing newsletter?  Sign up for The Writing Life with Nancy Christie , and receive a free writing-related tip sheet as a bonus!

Tyler James Russell is the author of When Fire Splits the Sky (2022), a novel, and To Drown a Man (2020), a poetry collection, both from Unsolicited Press. His writing has been nominated for the Rhysling and Best of the Net, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, F(r)iction, Janus Literary, and the NonBinary Review, among others. Tyler works as an educator and lives in Pen...