My Imaginary Friends With L. Penelope

Mentioned: - B2Weird book club - https://www.instagram.com/b2weird/ - Rings of Power - House of the Dragon - She-Hulk - Once Upon a Forbidden Desire releases Sep. 13 - https://books2read.com/forbiddenfairytales - "Her Majesty's Wolf" excerpt - https://lpenelope.com/2022/09/her-majestys-wolf-excerpt/ - My newsletter - https://lpenelope.com/newsletter/ - Hidden Black towns beneath America's lakes - https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTAeKvLbSx/ - Beyond Tulsa: The Secret History of Flooding Black Towns to Make Lakes | The Amber Ruffin Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3D4hSQcWbk - Margaret Pinard's September #AuthPanel on THE BACKLIST - https://youtu.be/5KrwzZqEy7o - Huberman Lab podcast - Optimize Your Focus - https://hubermanlab.com/focus-toolkit-tools-to-improve-your-focus-and-concentration/ - Publishing Will Never Be Fair - https://unherd.com/2022/07/publishing-will-never-be-fair/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional

Mentioned: - The National Book Festival - https://www.loc.gov/events/2022-national-book-festival/ - B.L. Blanchard - blblanchard.com - Tochi Onyebuchi - tochionyebuchi.com - NPR Codeswitch - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch - The Hot Sheet newsletter - https://hotsheetpub.com/ - "Notes from Across the Pond" Banished newsletter (paywall) https://banished.substack.com/p/notes-from-across-the-pond - Purple Hearts on Netflix - Susan Dennard - The Luminaries Street Team - https://luminerds.substack.com/p/hunter-trials-challenge-1   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay i

10 Things I Learned from Junot Diaz: 1. “Unless it’s breaking you, why would anyone else care?” 2. Give readers a chance to interact with the work - don’t chew it up and put it in their mouths. Let them come to different conclusions. Give them choices to let them decide what to think.  3. Writers cannot be "in cahoots" with the story - safeguard a space for the reader in the story. The story shouldn’t be dictated by the author. 4. Memory is contained and not dangerous. Memory work disrupts the immersion of the story because the character is not immersed in remembering 5. 1st POV should not try to discharge the function of 3rd POV 6. Withholding information is not developing character or plot. Non-information creates disinterest. 7. With characters, take away the one thing you think is important and see what you have left. Allow them to interact with others to let the reader see who they really are. Scaling with at least 2 others allows you to triangulate. 8. We look away to spare ourselves from feeling the pa

Mentioned: - Mama Day by Gloria Naylor - https://amzn.to/3ceURU4 - Author Marie Force - https://marieforce.com/ - The Sandman on Netflix - Day Shift on Netflix - Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil - https://amzn.to/3R4I7y9   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM Affil

- Sistah Scifi interview replay - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChGaUAooXat/ - Miro - online whiteboard & stickies - https://miro.com - Turning points article - https://leeallenhoward.com/2020/06/04/scene-structure-understanding-turning-points/ - The Sandman on Netflix - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - https://amzn.to/3QJZPXg - Brandon Sanderson's Laws of Magic - https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/what-are-sandersons-laws-of-magic/ - Confrontation at Nuxvar by Judith Moffitt - https://amzn.to/3Amt798 - Maggie Wells romance - https://maggie-wells.com/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support th

Mentioned: - The Monsters We Defy is out on Tuesday! https://lpen.co/monsters - Zelda twitter thread for Albinism Awareness Day - https://twitter.com/leslyepenelope/status/1536405352228474880 - New Moon Daughter by Cassandra Wilson - https://open.spotify.com/album/7jV22JIrWgtCKCX34cJrzA?si=yjp1JccuRcW2zLgFZA0pwA - The Monsters We Defy playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pHG7NlC3I2dwQuko0He8w?si=a58d8a83f0d04b38 - Leslye's upcoming events: https://lpenelope.com/calendar/ - Manila Village - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Village - Donald Maas "Tension All the Time" from The Fire in Fiction - https://amzn.to/3p0RYsB - Galaxy's Edge magazine "Longhand" column - http://www.galaxysedge.com/ - Book exploder podcast - https://bookexploder.com/episodes/susan-orlean   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writin

Mentioned: - Apollycon - https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/apollycon/ - Try This: Beat Yourself Up Or Write Yourself Upbeat -  Chuck Palahniuk: https://chuckpalahniuk.substack.com/p/try-this-beat-yourself-up-or-write - Ran Walker - https://www.ranwalker.com/ - The Monsters We Defy - https://lpenelope.com/monsters-preorder The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecom

Mentioned: - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever teaser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOB3UALvrQ - How to use a comptometer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4nYUXJHnk - America’s Next Great Author - https://writerbeware.blog/2022/07/15/americas-next-great-author-the-author-reality-show-idea-rides-again/ - The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com/ - Paul Bogaards Substack - https://paulbogaards.substack.com/p/introducing-kill-your-darlings-oh - Deadline City podcast - https://deadlinecity.com/ - Africa Brooke interview https://youtu.be/q6KGsI6QzD4?t=5080 - Apollycon - https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/apollycon/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http:/

Mentioned: - Plottr software - https://plottr.com?ref=136 (affiliate link) - The Story Grid - https://storygrid.com/ - Scene and Sequel chart - Scene turning points - https://leeallenhoward.com/2020/06/04/scene-structure-understanding-turning-points/ - Writing Excuses Podcast - https://writingexcuses.com/ - Save the Cat - https://savethecat.com/ - One Stop for Writers Character Builder - https://onestopforwriters.com/about_cbt - Enneagram relationships - https://www.crystalknows.com/enneagram/types - Leftie Aubé’s Writing podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/leftie-aubes-writing-podcast/id1634709729 - Authortube Writing Conference - check out the replays - https://www.authortubewritingconference.com/schedule2022 - Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher - https://amzn.to/3cqEqDy - Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher - https://amzn.to/3oeEn0C - Alice Coldbreath Vawdrey Brothers series - https://amzn.to/3aQbWTt - An Inconvenient Vow by Alice Coldbreath - https://amzn.to/3zcCbNm - The Hating Game by Sally Thorn

Mentioned: - Plottr - https://plottr.com?ref=136 (affiliate link) - Scrivener -  https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview - Romancing the Beat - https://www.romancingthebeat.com/ - The Story Grid - https://storygrid.com/ - Whimsical - http://whimsical.com/ - Miro - https://miro.com/ - My board - https://lpenelope.com/wp-content/uploads/MiroBoard2.png - Save the Cat by Blake Snyder - https://amzn.to/3yrCEK1 - The Hero's Journey - https://www.masterclass.com/articles/writing-101-what-is-the-heros-journey - Jami Gold spreadsheets - https://jamigold.com/for-writers/worksheets-for-writers/ - How Rocky Debunks Save the Cat -  https://screencraft.org/blog/how-rocky-debunks-save-the-cat/ - Rocky: Why You Don't Need Writing Formulas -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TGwjiBV2w8 - On Writing - Rocky and Why You Need A Formula - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy59b-qCVjA - Story by Robert McKee - https://amzn.to/3moY8AW - Write Your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell – https://amzn.to/35eBwLu - Thor

Mentioned: - The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne – https://amzn.to/2Yw6Elx  Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody – https://amzn.to/3xf7TFV - Sarah Beth Yoga - https://www.youtube.com/c/sarahbethyoga - Yoga with Kassandra - https://www.youtube.com/c/yogawithkassandra - Yoga with Bird - https://www.youtube.com/c/YogaWithBird - A Midsummer Night's Dream @ Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA - https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/22-season/a-midsummer-nights-dream   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night

- Freewrite Traveler - https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler - Spoke transcription app - https://landing.spoke.app/en - Otter meeting transcription app - https://otter.ai/ - Dragon dictation software - https://www.nuance.com/index.html - Galaxy's Edge magazine - https://www.galaxysedge.com/ - One Stop for Writers, character profile builder - https://onestopforwriters.com/ - 4 Ways to Write a More Cathartic Story -  https://mystorydoctor.com/4-ways-to-write-a-more-cathartic-story/ - The Heir and the Spare by Kate Stradling - https://amzn.to/3xYCZnd - The Heir and the Spare - Author's note part 1 of 4 - https://katestradling.com/2022/05/31/iona-of-wessett-author-notes-part-1/  - Author Margaret Pinard - http://www.margaretpinard.com & https://www.youtube.com/c/MargaretPinard - My Events - https://lpenelope.com/calendar/ - Everything Everywhere All at Once - good review: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-review-1234707051/ - Authortube Writing Conference - htt

Mentioned:  - Savage City starred review in Publishers Weekly - https://www.publishersweekly.com/ASINB09Q282K7K - 2 starred reviews on 1 page video - https://www.instagram.com/p/CegnehSLCS-/ - Booklife - free submission to Publishers Weekly - https://booklife.com/about-us/review-submission-guidelines.html - https://awario.com/ - web conversation monitoring - Virtuous Con Summer Workshop Series - https://virtuouscon.com/ - My events page - https://lpenelope.com/calendar/ - The Monsters We Defy ARC giveaway & signed books from Loyalty Books - https://lpenelope.com/2022/06/the-monsters-we-defy-arc-giveaway/ - https://clickup.com/ - project management   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcas

Mentioned: - Galaxy's Edge magazine - http://www.galaxysedge.com - Deep Work by Cal Newport - https://amzn.to/3mgpA4p - Paragraph Workspace for Writers in New York City - https://www.paragraphny.com - Adjustable portable laptop stand - https://amzn.to/38QHhEH - Write Your Novel From the Middle by James Scott Bell -  https://amzn.to/35eBwLu - ConTinual interview with Jean Marie Ward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxqnMWauhbA - Bookfly Design, cover designer - https://www.bookflydesign.com - Preorder THE MONSTERS WE DEFY - https://lpen.co/monsters - THE MONSTERS WE DEFY character art - https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWIinFu-Jb/ The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsle

- Order signed, personalized copies of THE MONSTERS WE DEFY from Loyalty Books and get a free swag pack: https://www.loyaltybookstores.com/preordermonsters - Artwork of Zeli from Earthsinger Chronicles: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxKOH7nUKe/. Art by Nicole Deal: https://www.instagram.com/nicole.deal.art/ - Pysthache character artist: https://www.instagram.com/mlle_pysthache/ - THE MONSTERS WE DEFY starred Publishers Weekly review - https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316377911 - Severance on Apple TV - Top Gun Maverick!! - Kenobi on Disney+   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! S

Mentioned: - Imaginarium Book Festival - https://www.imaginariumbookfestival.com/ - Apollycon - https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/apollycon/ - Little Shop of Horrors - Tiny Desk at Home w/ commentary by co-writer Alan Menken  https://youtu.be/ymqKPz5kRXE?t=523  - In The Heights - Hamilton - Holly Black on Lit Service podcast -  https://litservicepodcast.wixsite.com/litnation/podcast-1/episode/24fa79a0/concise-world-building-with-holly-black - Severance on Apple TV The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good

Mentioned: - Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody – https://amzn.to/3xf7TFV - The Anatomy of Story by John Truby - https://amzn.to/3wwAzLE - Dan Wells’ 7 Point Plot Structure - https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/story-structure/seven-point-story-structure/ - Structuring Your Novel by K.M. Weiland - https://amzn.to/3Mc5pjD - The Creative Penn podcast - https://www.thecreativepenn.com/podcasts/ - Storyist writing software - https://storyist.com/ - Scrivener - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview - Notion software - https://notion.so - ClickUp project management software - http://clickup.com - My author publication DB video & template - https://lpenelope.com/2020/08/manage-your-published-book-details-with-notion/ - Asana project management software - https://asana.com/ - "Second Brain" - a good, very short overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBOHUBTsvHk - BB Edit - text editor - https://asana.com/ - Google Keep - https://keep.google.com     The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a wee

Mentioned:  - Structuring Your Novel by K.M. Weiland - https://amzn.to/3Mc5pjD - Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody – https://amzn.to/3xf7TFV - Agents vs. attorneys - https://kriswrites.com/2022/04/27/business-musings-attorneys/ - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - Moonknight The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/

Mentioned: - Song of Blood & Stone - https://lpenelope.com/book/song-of-blood-and-stone/ - The Monsters We Defy - https://lpenelope.com/book/the-monsters-we-defy/ - Remarkable 2 tablet - https://remarkable.com/ - The 10 Awful Truths about Book Publishing - https://ideas.bkconnection.com/10-awful-truths-about-publishing - Wheel of Time casting   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC

Mentioned: - Rebecca Roanhorse Black Sun & Fevered Star - https://amzn.to/3Kbl0hp - Junot Diaz - Whimsical.com - kanban boards, mind maps and virtual stickie notes - Killjoys on SyFy - Deep Space 9 The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM Affiliate Disclosure: I may re