About this episode

Laura Van Wormer discusses her journey from a near-fatal crash to creating a serialized fiction podcast.

A head-on crash took author Laura Van Wormer out of the writing life she knew and forced her to rebuild from scratch, including her voice. What she did, though, was that she didn’t just return to storytelling; she invented a new lane for herself through a serialized fiction podcast. Laura, a best-selling novelist and former Doubleday editor, joined me to explain how The Class of 74 became a narrative “soap opera” told week by week, complete with cliffhangers, research, and a liste...

People in this episode

Host: Natasha Tynes

Guest: Laura Van Wormer

Topics covered

• fiction podcast
• storytelling
• writing journey
• serialized narrative
• cliffhangers

Keywords

• fiction podcast
• Laura Van Wormer
• storytelling
• serialized narrative
• writing life

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Doubleday

Books & works: The Class of 74

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