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
Diane Gabaldon--from renowned scientist to author of historical fantasy
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you'll learn--
- how Gabaldon went from scientist and computer expert to bestselling author of both a series of novels and the streaming series they spawned
- how she was among the first authors to combine historical adventure, suspense, mystery, science fiction and fantasy and romance with incredible success
- how the book sales and the viewers of the TV series dwarf the readership of many other authors
- how the the books (and the streaming series) occurred almost by accident, or at least on a whim.
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!