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Carter Wilson's Making It Up - Podcast

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.

Arts Writing
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
49 minutes
Episodes
199
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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Making It Up with Gina DeMillo Wagner, author of Forces of Nature

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 …

00:55:11  |   Sun 03 Nov 2024
Making It Up with Barbara Feigin, author of My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom

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 p…

00:59:45  |   Fri 25 Oct 2024
Making It Up with Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter

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, both published by G.P. Putn…

00:50:13  |   Thu 17 Oct 2024
Making It Up with Lisa Gardner, author of Still See You Everywhere

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…

00:52:05  |   Thu 10 Oct 2024
Making It Up with Erin Adams, author of Jackal

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 Univ…

00:45:38  |   Thu 03 Oct 2024
Making It Up with J.D. Barker, author of Behind A Closed Door

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…

00:51:03  |   Thu 26 Sep 2024
Making It Up with Lauren Thomas, author of You Shouldn't Be Here

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 i…

00:53:55  |   Thu 19 Sep 2024
Making It Up with Elka Ray, author of A Friend Indeed

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, an…

01:00:10  |   Thu 12 Sep 2024
Making It Up with John DeDakis, author of Enemies Domestic

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 no…

00:53:20  |   Fri 06 Sep 2024
Making It Up with Lori Roy, author of Lake County

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 Editors’…

00:52:06  |   Fri 30 Aug 2024
Making It Up with Mary Bly (Eloisa James), author of Viscount in Love

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 …

00:48:31  |   Thu 22 Aug 2024
Making It Up with Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh, authors of Echo Road

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 t…

00:39:24  |   Fri 16 Aug 2024
Making It Up with Erica Wright, author of Hollow Bones

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 Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Her essay collection Snake was released as part of …

00:50:05  |   Fri 09 Aug 2024
Making It Up with Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado, authors of Fatal Intrusion

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…

00:50:12  |   Sat 03 Aug 2024
Making It Up with Marc Guggenheim, author of In Any Lifetime

Making It Up with Marc Guggenheim, author of In Any Lifetime

Marc Guggenheim is an Emmy-award winning screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone (2008–2009), Arrow (201…

00:56:27  |   Thu 25 Jul 2024
Making It Up with Mary Adkins, author of Palm Beach

Making It Up with Mary Adkins, author of Palm Beach

Mary Adkins is the author of the novels When You Read This (Indie Next Pick, “Best Book of 2019” by Good Housekeeping and Real Simple), Privilege (Today.com “Best Summer Read”), and Palm Beach (New Y…

00:50:28  |   Thu 18 Jul 2024
Making It Up with Dean Monti, author of The Monosexual

Making It Up with Dean Monti, author of The Monosexual

Dean Monti has worked creatively in a variety of mediums including short stories, plays, novels, journalism, and screenwriting. His latest novel, The Monosexual, will be published July 2024. He is al…

00:54:20  |   Thu 04 Jul 2024
Making It Up with Victoria Helen Stone, author of Follow Her Down

Making It Up with Victoria Helen Stone, author of Follow Her Down

Victoria Helen Stone, author of the runaway best seller Jane Doe, writes critically acclaimed novels of dark intrigue and emotional suspense. Aside from Follow Her Down, At The Quiet Edge, The Last O…

00:47:28  |   Thu 27 Jun 2024
Making It Up with Aimie Runyan, author of Mademoiselle Eiffel

Making It Up with Aimie Runyan, author of Mademoiselle Eiffel

Aimie Runyan is a multi-published and bestselling author of historical and contemporary fiction. She has been nominated for a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year Award, a Historical Nov…

00:50:10  |   Fri 21 Jun 2024
Making It Up with Kimberly Giarratano, author of Devil in Profile

Making It Up with Kimberly Giarratano, author of Devil in Profile

Kimberly Giarratano is an author of mysteries for teens and adults. Her debut novel, Grunge Gods and Graveyards, won the 2015 Silver Falchion Award for Best YA at Killer Nashville. In May 2024 she re…

00:57:45  |   Thu 13 Jun 2024
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