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Episode 38 with Gail Carriger – comedy of manners paranormal romance author
“The strength of the romance genre lies in the Heroine’s Journey.”
Episode 38 – Gail Carriger – Show Notes
- A militant plotter and a purger
- 2000 words per day and only re-read words written the day before
- Novellas in the independent publishing world
- Chronic tea drinker – import from England
- Gentle, frivolous, strong female friendships and the help of others
- The Heroine’s Journey
- Give yourself permission to suck
- Beta readers with different coloured pens and revision pass for funny
- Scrivener
- Moving back into YA high fantasy
- Tamora Pierce, Mercedes Lackey
- Queer characters and power of normalisation
- Competence: with queer main character.
- Shared world of characters but stories are stand-alone
“No one but you has to read your first draft.”
“My goal is at least three LOLs per page.”
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