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Uncorking a Story

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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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The Story of the Case, with William Landay

March 7, 2023 MPN Uncorking a Story 0 Comments
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We can add today’s guest, William Landay, to the growing list of former lawyers turned authors who have come on Uncorking a Story to promote their work. While digging into this dynamic with William, it became clear to me why so many lawyers, especially trial attorneys, have a knack for writing—as he put it, you are trying to tell the story of the case and hope that you move your readers (i.e. jurors) one way or the other.

 

Meet William Landay

William is the author of Defending Jacob, which won the Strand Critics Award for best novel; The Strangler, listed as a best crime novel of the year by the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Telegraph, and others; and Mission Flats, winner of the Dagger Award for best first crime novel. A former assistant district attorney, he lives in Boston and joined me to talk about his latest novel, All that is Mine I Carry With Me.

Key Topics:

  1. How William transitioned from being an Assistant DA to writing full time.
  2. How telling a story to jurors is not dissimilar to telling a story to readers.
  3. Lessons he learned from his readers that impacted his storytelling.
  4. His approach to writing his latest book, All that is Mine I Carry with Me.
  5. Why he would tell his younger self to view his sensitivity as a strength, rather than a weakness.

Buy All That is Mine I Carry With Me

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

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9780345531841

Connect With William

Website: https://www.williamlanday.com/

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/williamlanday

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

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