Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
Robert Parker--the author who resurrected the PI mystery
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode you'll learn--
- how Parker went from technical writer to bestselling author
- how Parker created four bestselling series of crime novels
- how his novels embraced a wide diversity of characters, well before his time
- how he had more than 70 books published in genres ranging from mystery to Westerns to coming-of-age to a YA novel
- the process he used to produce such a remarkable number of quality, successful novels
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!