Episode 362 – The Book To Read Before Giving Up On Your Writing Dreams with Todd Fahnestock

Mark interviews author Todd Fahnestock about his latest book for writers: Falling to Fly: The Book To Read Before Giving Up On Your Writing Dreams.

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In the interview Mark and Todd talk about:

Who Todd is and the edge of the seat epic fantasy he writesA little bit about Todd’s memoir of hiking the Colorado Trail with his 15-year-old sonThe pitch for Summer of the Fetch, one of his one-off booksTodd’s latest book FALLING TO FLY: The Book to Read Before Giving Up on Your Writing DreamsHow the book includes several completely frank episodes where Todd fell flat on his face and failed, and yet picked himself up one more timeThe idea of failure being the classroom and success being the diplomaBeing bored with a story where there’s no challenge, or struggle, or flaws in the main characterHow fantasy books saved Todd’s life when he was young and the fact he wanted to do the same thing for someone elseThe “writer dream” interviews that Todd is doing on social mediaThe chapter called “The Little Rebel” and what that particular voice does for ToddThe nightmare that inspired the idea for the title FALLING TO FLYAnd more . . .

After the interview Mark reflects on how great a storyteller Todd is, how much he enjoyed Todd’s latest book, and the value when someone paints an authentic picture of the actual stark realities of the writing life.

Links of Interest:

Todd Fahnestock’s WebsiteEP 340 – Personality, Passion, Presentation, and Persistence with Todd FahnestockScribeCount (Mark’s Affiliate Link)DropCap MarketplaceUse coupon STARK20 to get 20% offCruising WritersBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark ReflectionsHow to Access Patreon RSS FeedsAn Author’s Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed AuthorBuy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook DirectPublishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author’s Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark’s Canadian Werewolf BooksThis Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover’s MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the BuildingThe Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard

Todd Fahnestock is an award-winning, #1 bestselling author of fantasy for all ages and winner of the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age Award. Threadweavers and The Whisper Prince Trilogy are two of his bestselling epic fantasy series. He is a founder of Eldros Legacy—a multi-author, shared-world mega-epic fantasy series—three-time winner of the Colorado Authors League Award for Writing Excellence, and two-time finalist for the Colorado Book Award for Tower of the Four: The Champions Academy (2021) and Khyven the Unkillable (2022).

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0