Uncorking a Story Podcast

Uncorking a Story

Hosted ByMike Carlon

Stories influence, teach and inspire us, but what about the storytellers who create them? Uncorking a Story profiles storytellers to uncover how their background and life experiences influence the stories they create. We learn what motivates them, their path to success, and what fuels them to keep creating. It all starts by asking one simple question, where does your story begin? Welcome to uncorking a story. All of the books promoted on Uncorking a Story can be viewed and purchased here: https://bookshop.org/shop/UncorkingaStory

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Runaway Train, with Ava Glass

September 20, 2022 MPN Uncorking a Story 0 Comments
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About Ava Glass: Ava Glass is a former civil servant and journalist who once worked closely with spies. She lives in the same town in the south of England as Christopher Steele. But this is, of course, a coincidence. She joined me on Uncorking a Story to talk about her career and latest novel, Alias Emma.

In this episode, Mike and Ava discuss: 

  • Being captured by writing while living on the careening train of life. 
  • Your first published book not being your first attempt at writing a book. 
  • Surprises in the publishing industry. 
  • Worrying too much and living the advice you would tell your younger self. 

Key Takeaways: 

  • Reading is not necessarily the path to being a writer, but it does help cultivate an active imagination. 
  • Story ideas can come from anywhere – careers, television, news articles, travel, and so many more places. Keep your eyes and ears open and you will become inspired.
  • You can learn a lot about yourself as you write fiction. 
  • No chapter gets more rewritten than chapter one. You don’t have to worry if it is awful, because it is just going to be rewritten. 

“Making things up for a living is the ultimate indulgence of your inner child. I make up people; I make up stories. I tell stories to myself constantly. I feel like, in every book, I’m going to be telling stories to people. So that is the ultimate gift I could give my inner kid.” – Ava Glass

Buy Alias Emma

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3PtYFhW

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9780593496794

Connect with Ava

Website: https://www.avaglass.uk/ 

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/avaglassbooks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvaGlassBooks

Connect with Mike Carlon:

Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncorkingastory

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/

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