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January 17, 2023 45 mins

Today Kat talks about Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, plus nonfiction novels and character motivations. (CONTENT WARNING: family murders, execution by hanging: skip to 8:21 if needed). Then, I chat with the lovely Ania Ray from Quill and Cup! We discuss:

  • What Quill and Cup is
  • Giving yourself permission to create
  • What a prickle is
  • How the community can help you avoid procrastinating!
  • Webinars, educational prickles, a sense of community, accountability
  • Ania’s own writing journey
  • The discomfort of first drafts
  • Her Cromwell Rules series
  • Writing a damned good book!
  • Her publishing journey
  • Her excellent advice to writers about mindset

Ania can be found at www.quillandcup.com, on Instagram @quillandcup, and on YouTube.

Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes @_badasswriters @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. On IG, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites @badasswriters_podcast @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. Her websites are www.kathleenfoxx.com www.foxxeditorial.com and www.moodpitch.org

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For guest inquiries, questions for the podcast (to be answered in an episode), book recommendations or shoutouts to those who've helped on your path to publication, see details on Kat's website here. Please note interview bookings are now full until October 2023.

Music: Bathtime Funk by All Good Folks (uppbeats.io), The Tall Man, The Collector, and Evil Tendencies, all by Farrell Wooten (epidemicsound.com)

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