Writing Stories

You Have to Do This - Shannon Sanders tells the story of Company

January 22, 2024 Brianna Avenia-Tapper Season 1 Episode 5
You Have to Do This - Shannon Sanders tells the story of Company
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Writing Stories
You Have to Do This - Shannon Sanders tells the story of Company
Jan 22, 2024 Season 1 Episode 5
Brianna Avenia-Tapper

In this episode,  I talk to Shannon Sanders about her linked short story collection, Company. We talk about:

- writing your own murder mystery parties
- writing through your feelings about others' offhand comments
- signing with an agent a week before COVID lockdown
- persisting in your writing through the birth of twins
- finishing your book while raising three children under three
- resisting, as a writer of short stories, the pressure to turn them into a novel
- trusting your own aesthetic judgement
- toddler responses to mom's book
- LeVar Burton!

You can find Company here.
Also check out The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by the author Danielle Evans who is mentioned in the episode ( Shannon  is a fan! ). 

Show Notes

In this episode,  I talk to Shannon Sanders about her linked short story collection, Company. We talk about:

- writing your own murder mystery parties
- writing through your feelings about others' offhand comments
- signing with an agent a week before COVID lockdown
- persisting in your writing through the birth of twins
- finishing your book while raising three children under three
- resisting, as a writer of short stories, the pressure to turn them into a novel
- trusting your own aesthetic judgement
- toddler responses to mom's book
- LeVar Burton!

You can find Company here.
Also check out The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by the author Danielle Evans who is mentioned in the episode ( Shannon  is a fan! ).