WGP Ep 55- The Charm Bracelet, Viola Shipman

VIOLA SHIPMAN

is a pen name for Wade Rouse, a popular, award-winning memoirist. Rouse chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman, to honor the woman whose charm bracelet and family stories inspired him to write his debut novel, which is a tribute to all of our elders. Rouse lives in Michigan and writes regularly for People and Coastal Living, among other places, and is a contributor to All Things Considered. To date, The Charm Bracelet has been translated into nine languages. He is at work on his second “heirloom novel,” which will be published in 2017.

In this episode, we discuss:

Show Notes

Book launches and how checking the numbers is sort of universal

The author’s book list and how this one is different for him (memoir to fiction)

Inspiration: he talks about how he was inspired and how author’s should write what calls to them

Insider details: how reading got his writing really going (structure, flow etc.)

How writing a prologue meant a lot to this book and how they can be effective and necessary

Information: Details about what/whom The Charm Bracelet is based on and the true human experience that inspired the writing of it

The important things in life that helped to write the book ie. setting, characters, etc.

The truth factor of fiction and how much of our life ends up in our books

What’s coming up next for Wade in the “heirloom” series.

How long it took to write The Charm Bracelet and how he went about writing it

How his agent helped the writing of it

His AHA moment during the writing of this book

Editing and how he loves that part of writing and how long he spends during that process

What other writing he does that helps in the editing process

What his best advice is for an aspiring author

AND SO MUCH MORE

AUDIO

Links

Click the cover to go to Amazon to purchase this great book!

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