Carter Wilson's Making It Up
In this conversation series, USA Today bestselling novelist Carter Wilson talks to writers of all backgrounds in order to find out why they do what they do. He and his guests discuss childhood influences, roots of creativity, luck and loss, tools of the craft, and the highs and lows of publishing. At the end of their conversation, they pick a random sentence from a random book and use it to create an impromptu short story. Visit Carter at www.carterwilson.com.
Episodes
169 episodes
Making It Up with Emily Jon Tobias, author of Monarch: Stories
Emily Jon Tobias is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been featured in literary journals such as Santa Clara Review, Flying South Literary Journal, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and more. He...
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Episode 166
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50:38
Making It Up with Pamela Statz, author of Thorn City
Pamela Statz grew up in Wisconsin and attended UW Madison, earning degrees in Journalism and History. She’s worked in media and advertising in San Francisco and Portland for Lucasfilm, WIRED, Nike, and Wieden+Kennedy. Thorn City is her first...
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Episode 165
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45:07
Making It Up with Alex Kenna, author of Burn this Night
Alex Kenna is a prosecutor, writer, and amateur painter. Before law school, Alex studied painting and art history at Penn. She also worked as a freelance art critic and culture writer. Alex’s debut novel, What Meets the Eye<...
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Episode 164
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51:01
Making It Up with Georgia Jeffries, author of The Younger Girl
Georgia Jeffries is a writer of Emmy Award-winning drama and acclaimed noir fiction, and has been honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards, Golden Globes, and the Humanitas Prize. She worked as a journalist for American Film before writing...
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Episode 163
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Making It Up with Rebecca McKenna, author of Don't Forget the Girl
Rebecca McKanna is an associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis. Her debut novel, Don’t Forget the Girl, was nominated for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Mystery and the 2023
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Episode 162
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48:31
Making It Up with Elise Hart Kipness, author of Dangerous Play
Elise Hart Kipness is a television sports reporter turned crime fiction writer. In addition to reporting for Fox Sports Network, Elise was a reporter at New York’s WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, and the Associated Press, covering events inclu...
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Episode 161
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51:22
Making It Up with Brad Parks, author of The Boundaries We Cross
Brad Parks is an international bestselling author, and the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 16 languages and have won ...
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Episode 160
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49:05
Making It Up with Edward Hamlin, author of Sonata in Wax
Edward Hamlin is a fiction writer and composer of music for acoustic guitar. Edward’s NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI was selected by Karen Russell as winner of the 2015 Iowa Short Fiction Award and went on to win the Colorado Book Award. Other honors have...
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Episode 159
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Making It Up with Libby Cudmore, author of Negative Girl
Libby Cudmore is the author of Negative Girl and The Big Rewind, as well as the Wade & Jacks P.I. series in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine,
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Episode 158
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49:06
Making It Up with Jen Ruiz, author of 12 Trips in 12 Months
Jen Ruiz is a lawyer turned full-time travel blogger. A multiple bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and national award-winning travel journalist, she has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, and ABC News. Jen has been named a Latina ...
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Episode 157
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59:53
Making It Up with Gina DeMillo Wagner, author of Forces of Nature
Gina DeMillo Wagner is an award-winning journalist and author. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Memoir Magazine, Modern Loss, Self, Outside, Writer’s Digest, and other publications. She is a Yaddo Fellow,...
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Episode 156
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55:11
Making It Up with Barbara Feigin, author of My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom
Barbara Feigin is an advertising executive and World War II refugee, having fled with her parents from Nazi Germany as a young child in 1940. She attended Whitman College, then completed a graduate program in business run jointly by Harvard ...
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Episode 155
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59:45
Making It Up with Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter
Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novels The Marsh King’s Daughter and The Wicked Sister, ...
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Episode 154
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50:13
Making It Up with Lisa Gardner, author of Still See You Everywhere
Lisa Gardner is a #1 New York Times bestselling thriller novelist. Her internationally acclaimed novels have been published across 30 countries. She’s had four books become TV movies (At the Midnight Hour; The Perfect Husband; The Survivors ...
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Episode 153
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52:05
Making It Up with Erin Adams, author of Jackal
Erin E. Adams is a first-generation Haitian American writer and theater artist. She received her BA with honors in literary arts from Brown University, her MFA in acting from The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatr...
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Episode 152
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45:38
Making It Up with J.D. Barker, author of Behind A Closed Door
J.D. Barker (Jonathan Dylan Barker) is an international bestselling American author whose work has been broadly described as suspense thrillers, often incorporating elements of horror, crime, mystery, science fiction, and the supernatural. H...
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Episode 151
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51:03
Making It Up with Lauren Thomas, author of You Shouldn't Be Here
Lauren Thoman writes speculative fiction for teens and adults. Her debut novel, I'll Stop the World, was selected for publication in 2023 by six-time Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling through her eponymous imprint, Mindy's Boo...
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Episode 150
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53:55
Making It Up with Elka Ray, author of A Friend Indeed
Elka Ray is a Canadian/UK author, and a former journalist and travel writer, who writes fiction for adults and children. She is the author of the romantic mysteries Divorce is Murder, Killer Coin...
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Episode 149
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Making It Up with John DeDakis, author of Enemies Domestic
Award-winning novelist, writing coach, and manuscript editor John DeDakis is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of six mystery-suspense-thriller novels. John is a former White House corresp...
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Episode 148
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53:20
Making It Up with Lori Roy, author of Lake County
Lori Roy is an award-winning novelist. Her debut novel, Bent Road, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Until She Comes Home was a New York Times Edit...
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Episode 147
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52:06
Making It Up with Mary Bly (Eloisa James), author of Viscount in Love
Mary Bly, writing under the pen name Eloisa James, is a tenured Shakespeare professor at Fordham University who also writes best-selling Regency and Georgian romance novels. Her novels are published in 30 countries and have sold approximatel...
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Episode 146
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48:31
Making It Up with Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh, authors of Echo Road
Kendra Elliot has landed on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list multiple times and is the award-winning author of the Bone Secrets and Callahan & McLane series, the Mercy Kilpatrick novels, and the Columbia River novels. She's a thre...
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Episode 145
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Making It Up with Erica Wright, author of Hollow Bones
Erica Wright is the author of eight novels, including her newest novel Hollow Bones, a contemporary retelling of Shak...
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Episode 144
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50:05
Making It Up with Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado, authors of Fatal Intrusion
Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA. He is the author of more than forty novels, three collections...
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Episode 143
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