High school creative writing teacher and first-time author BT Hayes chats with Trey Elling about EXPECTATIONS. Topics include:
- The feeling of being published for the first time (0:35)
- The basis of Expectations (1:32)
- A timeline for the book (2:10)
- Enjoying the research (3:28)
- Picking up teenage dialogue thru his day job (5:33)
- His fears for his own daughter manifesting in the book (7:25)
- Have his kids read the book? (9:07)
- A nervousness in sharing a morbid piece of work (9:24)
- Why the title is "Expectations" (11:13)
- Playing with preconceived notions (11:50)
- A lesson from writing his first novel (14:16)
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