Episode 34: The Thorn Necklace by Francesca Lia Block

Happy 2019, Wayfinders! January was a heck of a year, but we still want to celebrate some sunshine and self help and return to a favorite author. It’s going to get meta up in here, while we talk KonMari, the Unicorn Club, writerly obsessions, playing 12 Questions with our WIP, and self help writer gossip. In this episode

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Content Notes

This is a book about the oeuvre of Francesca Lia Block, so everything present in her books is present here: parent death, grief, eating disorders, mental and physical illness, miscarriage, terrible boys and terrible men, rape culture, antisemitism. There’s also a long rumination on David Bowie and his influence on the author’s writing and art, so caveat lector.

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Show Notes

Parasol Protectorate Fan Group

Heavenly Creatures

Francesca Lia Block’s 12 Questions to Help Structure Your Novel, around which the book itself is structured

Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages

Happy Birthday Judy Blume!

Best Babysitters Ever by Carolina Cala

Racefail ‘09

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Readalikes

Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey by Deena Metzger

Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Spirit by Susan G. Wooldridge

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Current Reads

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

The Belladonna University series by Tansy Rayner Roberts

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Episode 29: 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Before Maureen Johnson was writing about supernatural serial killers in London, she was writing showtune-singing serial killers in...Amsterdam? Carey and Marie talk whimsical world-tripping adventures, slapstick comedy, terrible musicals and the boys that write them, and how, in fact, we would spend $1000 from a dead aunt. Does being an artist give you a license to be a butt? Find out within!

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Content Notes

Grief, adults making bad decisions, teens making bad decisions, teens getting taken advantage of, sexual assault, internalized misogyny. In other words, 2005 YA in a book.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  (CC Marie Macula, Carey Farrell 2018)