From Substack Serial to Trad Novel with...

It is of course the inimitable, the unconquerable, the inexhaustible Jo Piazza, all of whose adjectives require me to use spell check. I am a long time fan of Jo, and she’s been on the pod before—see also Episode 393, I Want to Sell Books, But I’m Also Writing What I Want to Write. She is the author of, most recently, The Sicilian Inheritance and coming soon, Everyone Is Lying to You, which started out as a serial in her weekly email/Substack, Over the Influence. She’s also the host of a great podcast, Under the Influence.

As far as I know she’s the first person to pull off this feat. She probably isn’t, but we’re going to roll with it as a working theory. This is a great convo, and you will undoubtedly leave inspired, as I was, to write your own serial. (I probably won’t but I WAS inspired.)

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Jo:

The Displacements, Bruce Holsinger (author of The Gifted School)

Nightwatching, Tracy Sierra

Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty

KJ:

I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, Glynnis MacNicol

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

Jo’s email/Substack Over the Influence

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