Page Count Live: Turning Points in a Writing Career

This episode was recorded before a live audience at the 2023 Ohioana Book Festival at the Columbus Metropolitan Library on April 22, 2023. A panel of five authors discuss turning points in their writing careers—the good, the bad, the ugly, and the existentially fraught. This conversation covers everything from rejection to reader reactions, imposter syndrome, awards, inspiration, validation, and more.

 

Featured authors include:

• Mindy McGinnis, author of the YA mystery A Long Stretch of Bad Days
• Ric Sheffield, author of the memoir We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland
• Judith Turner-Yamamoto, author of the novel Loving the Dead and Gone
• Andrea Wang, author of the picture books Watercress and Luli and the Language of Tea
• Felicia Zamora, author of the poetry collection I Always Carry My Bones

 

For more information, visit the Ohioana Book Festival page.

 

Page Count is produced by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, visit the episode page. To get in touch, email ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org (put “podcast” in the subject line) or follow us on Twitter or on Facebook.