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Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of ONE WRONG WORD
FromWriters on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers
Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of ONE WRONG WORD
FromWriters on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 15 novels of suspense. She has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction, including five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She’s the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, and has won 37 EMMYs, 14 Edward R. Murrow awards, and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. Hank’s novels have been named Best Thriller of the Year by Library Journal, New York Post, BOOK BUB, PopSugar, Real Simple Magazine and others. Hank lives in Boston with her husband, a criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Her new book is One Wrong Word, a twisty non-stop story of gaslighting, manipulation, and murder.
Hank joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about her journey to writing, the crossover from broadcast journalism, voice, multiple points of view, avoiding the muddled middle, twists, pacing, and much more.
For more information on Writers on Writing and extra writing perks, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. Support the show by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. We’ve stocked it with titles from our guests, as well as some of our personal favorites. You’ll support independent bookstores and our show by purchasing through the store. Finally, on Spotify listen to an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at [email protected]. We love to hear from our listeners.
(Recorded on April 4, 2024) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic and sound editing: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)
Hank joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about her journey to writing, the crossover from broadcast journalism, voice, multiple points of view, avoiding the muddled middle, twists, pacing, and much more.
For more information on Writers on Writing and extra writing perks, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. Support the show by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. We’ve stocked it with titles from our guests, as well as some of our personal favorites. You’ll support independent bookstores and our show by purchasing through the store. Finally, on Spotify listen to an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at [email protected]. We love to hear from our listeners.
(Recorded on April 4, 2024) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic and sound editing: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)
Released:
May 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of “Brotherless Night”: Writers use language with intention. So when V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night uses the word “terrorist” six times on the first page of a novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, and incorporates the second person, the reader understands they’re as much active participant as passive observer in the book. Sugi joins Marrie Stone to talk about the novel’s origin and why she initially didn’t have the “chops” to write it. She talks about her own relationship with Sri Lanka and the research that went into rendering this period of history to life. Writers may find interest in Sugi’s decision to write in the first (and second) person; the power of writing in the subjunctive; how to describe a foreign time and place (with its particular dishes and unfamiliar names) without being overly explanatory; how Sugi deals with difficult writing challenges the same way she deals with going to the dentist; finding trusted readers; and more. Su by Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers