Episode 409 – Show, Don’t Tell With Suzy Vadori

Mark interviews Suzy Vadori, Calgary Bestselling author of The Fountain Series, the founder of the Inspired Writing Community, a Resident Writing Coach for Writers Helping Writers, and the host of the Show, Don’t Tell Writing Podcast.

Prior to the interview, Mark shares a brief personal update and a word from this episode’s sponsor.

This episode is sponsored by the Show, Don’t Tell Writing Podcast with Suzy Vadori. In this weekly show, Suzy brings you writing techniques, best practices, motivation, inspirational stories from real live authors out there making it in the world, and actionable advice that can help you turn that book you’re writing into the bestseller you know deep down that it can be.

During their interview, Mark and Suzy talk about:

The last time Suzy was on the podcast in an episode talking about doing a book launch in collaboration with her local bookstoreA little bit about who Suzy is and what she is passionate aboutSuzy’s background that includes having a Commerce Bachelors Degree and being a Chief Operating Officer for a startupSuzy’s main superpower, which is to take enormous amounts of information, feed them into her brain, and then to determine a path forwardApplying skills that come from outside writing into the writing worldThe Suzy Vadori umbrella and how that came aboutThe areas that Suzy is most passionate about helping writers with: the actual writingThe myth that writing talent is all your need to be successfulThe free newsletter Suzy sends out to writers and some of the content that’s contained within itSome of the tools Suzy uses to evaluate a writer’s manuscriptSuzy’s “Show Don’t Tell” PodcastThe book that Suzy is currently working on which aligns with the branding for her podcastAdvice that Suzy would offer to beginning writersAnd more . . .

After the interview Mark reflects on something Suzy said about bringing in skills and experience from outside the writing world.

Links of Interest:

Suzy Vadori’s WebsiteShow, Don’t Tell Writing PodcastEP 142 – Strategies For Launching a Book During a Pandemic with Suzy VadoriBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark ReflectionsEP 353 – Tao Wong on The Toronto Indie Author ConferenceAlex Lifeson’s Speech on Behalf of Rush at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame InductionMark’s YouTube channelMark’s Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)An 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 HardMerry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Suzy Vadori is Calgary Bestselling Author of The Fountain Series (The Fountain, The West Woods, Wall of Wishes). This fantastical series has received three Aurora Nominations for Best Young Adult Novel. She is represented by Naomi Davis of Bookends Literary Agency.

Suzy is the founder of the Inspired Writing Community, a Resident Writing Coach for Writers Helping Writers, a touring member of the Young Alberta Book Society (YABS) and a Program Manager for When Words Collide (WWC), a festival for readers and writers.

Suzy specializes in breaking down complex writing concepts for newer writers into manageable steps, to get the book idea exploding in their minds onto the page in a way that will make readers take notice. She works with both fiction and nonfiction writers, in Memoir, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, and of course, Young Adult. Suzy is an Advanced Certified Book Coach from Jennie Nash’s Author Accelerator.

Suzy speaks to youth and adult audiences across Western Canada about how writing can unlock doors and help you achieve your goals, whatever they may be.

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