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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The Human Perspective, with Alli Frank and Asha Youmans

November 8, 2022 MPN Uncorking a Story 0 Comments
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For so many of us writers, the actual act of writing is a solitary process. We write alone and maybe, after a while we will share something with a confidant or perhaps our agent. Of course, at the end of the first draft it will go to an editor and, at that point, writing becomes more of a collaborative process. Well, today’s guests do things a little bit differently—Alli Frank and Asha Youmans met while teaching at the same school. One day, Alli approached Asha with the idea to co-write a novel and the rest is history. They joined me on Uncorking a Story to talk about their career and latest novel Never Meant to Meet You.

Meet Alli and Asha:

Alli Frank has worked in education for more than twenty years, from boisterous public high schools to small, progressive private schools. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford University, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters. 

Asha Youmans spent two decades teaching elementary school students. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two sons. 

Key Topics:

  1. How working at a small, progressive private school influenced Alli and Asha’s first, and subsequent, novels.
  2. What it is like to write collaboratively.
  3. How humor can be a vehicle for bigger life lessons.
  4. Why we can learn important lessons through fiction as well as non fiction.
  5. What it means to write from the human perspective.

Buy Never Meant to Meet You

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

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9781542034104

Connect with Ali and Asha

Website:https://alliandasha.com/

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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliandasha

Connect with Mike

Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/

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