Mark interviews novelist, memoirist, and professional story whisperer Roz Morris about her writing life and her pivot into writing memoirs alongside her fiction.

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In the interview Mark and Roz talk about:

How Roz and Mark first met at the London Book Fair in 2012
What Roz writes and the types of stories that she loves and is fascinated with
Roz's journey which includes experience working in a publishing company and meeting and marrying another writer
The red leather-bound VISITORS book that Roz was given and she used for notes when she went on holiday, and how her husband convinced her to put those into a book
Roz's new book TURN RIGHT AT THE RAINBOW: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance, Home
The concept of a house that holds within its structure and walls all the people and stories that took place within it and how that ties in to the story of Roz and her husband's search for a new home
How it's very hard to remember how you saw something for the first time
The way Roz decides what stories are going to make it into a particular memoir
How museums out of season can be great because of the passion that you can witness in the employees
The next memoir that Roz is currently "collecting" in the background
How in a novel Roz can inhabit a lot of people in different ways
Advice Roz would have moving from memoir to fiction and vice versa

After the interview Mark reflects on a few things Roz mentioned as well as something her advice reminded him of. He also rambles a bit longer than normal.

Links of Interest:

Roz Morris Website
- Roz's latest book: TURN RIGHT AT THE RAINBOW
Mark's Books in the Smashwords READ AN EBOOK WEEK sale
Article: Publishing Wide But Shallow
Article: Stretching Before The Writing Run
Manuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%)
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Patreon for Stark Reflections
Mark's YouTube channel
ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link)
Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
The Relaxed Author
- Buy eBook Direct
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Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
Wide for the Win
Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
- This Time Around (Short Story)
- A Canadian Werewolf in New York
- Stowe Away (Novella)
- Fear and Longing in Los Angeles
- Fright Nights, Big City
- Lover's Moon
- Hex and the City
- Only Monsters in the Building
- Once Bitten (Novella)
The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
I Think It's A Sign That The Pun Also Rises

Roz Morris is a novelist, memoirist, and professional story whisperer. She's the author of acclaimed literary novels with BIG emotional canvases, and memoirs that find meaning in unadventures. She's also a developmental editor and writing coach and has helped shape books that have sold more than four million copies—some of those from behind the scenes as a ghostwriter. She's also the creator of the Nail Your Novel series for writers and the blog of the same name. She's judged literary prizes including the Amazon Kindle Storyteller Award and Vine Leaves Press New Voices competition, and has taught masterclasses for The Guardian in London and Jane Friedman's online academy.

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