The Book Whisperers
Comedy
We all have a book inside of us (a lot of us have more than one) but sometimes those stories can be buried deep. Three authors - Mary Turner Thomson, Sue Cohen and Lea Taylor - created The Book Whisperers to entice those trapped stories into the world. By recognising potential authors motives, needs and desires, The Book Whisperers aim to provide writers with confidence, knowledge, contacts and support to start and keep writing as well as to publish and market their books. And if we can have fun along the way all the better! All three presenters are successful authors and publishers with a wealth of experience within the book industry - from traditional publishing to self-publishing.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Comedy
Description:
We all have a book inside of us (a lot of us have more than one) but sometimes those stories can be buried deep. Three authors - Mary Turner Thomson, Sue Cohen and Lea Taylor - created The Book Whisperers to entice those trapped stories into the world. By recognising potential authors motives, needs and desires, The Book Whisperers aim to provide writers with confidence, knowledge, contacts and support to start and keep writing as well as to publish and market their books. And if we can have fun along the way all the better! All three presenters are successful authors and publishers with a wealth of experience within the book industry - from traditional publishing to self-publishing.
Language:
English
Episodes
Not My Finest Hour - Old Tits and Tupperware
2/22/2022
The Book Whisperers discuss the benefits and pitfalls of Tupperware and throw in the odd tit in the process. There may be a few writing tips, and certainly a performance of comedy poetry etc, and indubitably a lot of giggles from all quarters.
Duration:00:55:26
Not My Finest Hour - Mince Pies In The Cakehole
12/18/2021
The Book Whisperers are BACK with a Christmas special to launch our new series of podcasts, called 'Not My Finest Hour'. This month we are talking to Santa himself and trying to work out what means naughty, and what means nice. Funny, inspiring and festive - we look forward to you joining us!
Duration:01:05:25
Music and Writing
7/3/2021
# The 80s Pop Star Three authors - Susan Cohen, Lea Taylor and Mary Turner Thomson - who started The Book Whisperers (a community group of people in order to write during lockdown) come togerher for episode two of their new podcast. Join them as they talk about all things books and inspire people to write and have the confidence to publish their stories. This week they are talking about music and song lyrics that inspire as well as some more unusual questions for us to answer about writing...
Making Time to Write
7/3/2021
Being writers we are very creative people - which can be a challenge when it comes to the more practical side of our work - and specifically time management. How easy is it to stop multi-tasking and focus on what is important, to prioritise and schedule in work when all you want to do is sit down in a quiet corner and pen some stories. We all have a finite amount of energy to give towards the things we do, so how do we get the best out of the time we have? With whisperings, questions, and...
Writing Tips - Show don't Tell
7/3/2021
**Showing and not Telling - a golden rule of writing. ** This week the Whisperers are talking about writing tips using body language to show your reader how the characters are developing throughout the story. It allows the reader to judge for themselves what is going on and allows them to feel more part of the journey. It is therefore a style of writing that is more immersive for the reader allowing them to 'be in the room' with the characters. Chekhow said "Don't tell me the moon is...
Writing in Collaboration
7/3/2021
# COLLABORATION Lea, Mary and Sue having a chat about all things books - this weeks theme is collaboration. As authors we usually work on our own in remote offices creating worlds and characters from a blank screen - but often it is worth raising our heads and working with others to push your creativity in new directions. We will be interviewing our very own Book Whisperer Andrew, urban bee keeper, and author of 'The Wee Book of Bees' due out later this year - published by The Wee Book...
Writing Outside your Comfort Zone
7/3/2021
# WRITING OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE Mary, Sue and Lea having a chat about all things books - this weeks theme is writing outside your comfort zone - including an interview with our very own Book Whisperer Ewan Irvine, author, speaker and sell-out fringe performer (his new show 'Tales from the City Below' is in preparation now). Many stories that will take you out of your comfort zone. Also reading out some of our own work as well as blind questions from our audience. Do keep providing us...
Gifting Books
7/3/2021
What makes a good gift book and how can you make a book more giftable? With Christmas coming around the corner The Book Whisperers discuss giving and receiving books, as well as creating products in the gift book market. Lots of hints and tips with regards to adding value to your existing book, and thinking about additional books you can write.
Inspiration and Reconnecting
7/3/2021
With the first podcast of 2021 - Susan, Mary and Lea got together with Tom Rannachan - life coach, personal trainer and all around good egg - talking about how to change our lives and get more of what we want in life, We all need to make the best of any situation that we can. A lovely dose of mind/body/spirit balance to help get into the right mindset for the year ahead. Tom is the author of several books including 'Big Tam's Kilted Wurkoots', published by The Wee Book Company, as well as...
Writing across Genre
7/3/2021
# Refresh your writing through crossing genres This episode is NOT FOR KIDS! This week we are talking about mixing it up to refresh your writing and switching genres to try something new. Each of us given the task to write something in two completely new genres. Comic erotica (not for kids), horror pantomime, and alien memoir. We hope you enjoy listening to our bookish antics as much as we enjoyed making it. Thanks for listening to The Book Whisperers. If you are enjoying it and want to buy...
Writing as Therapy
7/3/2021
# Writing as Therapy Reading and writing have been proven to have immense therapeutic properties. Until we started talking about it we didn't realise how much this had come into our lives. Each of us have used writing as a therapy without our own lives as well as running courses with children and adults on writing themselves out of a crisis or using writing to promote self-esteem and self-confidence. We hope you enjoy listening to our bookish antics as much as we enjoyed making it.
Writing in Your Comfort Zone
7/3/2021
# WRITING IN YOUR COMFORT ZONE Mary, Sue and Lea having a chat about all things books - this weeks theme is writing within your comfort zone - including an interview with our very own Book Whisperer Samantha Cochrane, who is not only author of 'Charm Offensive'(under the psuedonym Gwen Gates Parker) a psychological thriller as well as a number of children's books! Also reading out some of our own work as well as blind questions from our audience. Do keep providing us with those blind...
Who Are WE?
7/3/2021
# How exciting - our first podcast! We are three authors ... **Mary Turner Thomson** (author of ***The Bigamist*** and soon to be published ***The Psychopath***), **Susan Cohen** (author of numerous books including ***The Wee Book O' Grannies Saying's***) and **Lea Taylor** (author of ***Animals, Beasties, and Monsters of Scotland*** and ***Midlothian Folk Tales***) ... and together we formed 'The Book Whisperers' in March 2020. It all started over a coffee and a rather excellent roll with...
Writing Horror
7/3/2021
This week being around Halloween, we are talking about horror writing and frightening stories. Joining us is Mary's daughter, Robyn, who has an extensive knowledge of horror books, art and films, as well as customising dolls as horror victims. We hope you enjoy listening to our bookish antics as much as we enjoyed making it. Thanks for listening to The Book Whisperers. If you are enjoying it and want to buy any of us a coffee, you can do so by visiting www.buymeacoffee.com/BookWhisperers
A Fascination with History
7/3/2021
# A Fascination with History Mary, Sue and Lea having a chat about all things books - this weeks theme is talking about history - including an interview with our very own Book Whisperer Malcolm Scott Milne who is a history buff and doing historic walking tours providing his audience with the fascinating stories of old Edinburgh. Also reading out some of our own work as well as blind questions from our audience. Do keep providing us with those blind questions (either in comments or via our...
Performance Tips for Writers
7/3/2021
# PERFORMANCE TIPS Sue, Mary and Lea having a chat about all things books - this weeks theme is performance. As authors we are all asked to read out our work, to speak in public, or to perform in interviews and podcasts. Knowing how to perform is important. Mary and Sue will be interviewing our very own Book Whisperer Lea Taylor, author, speaker and storyteller extraordinaire! We will answering your blind questions from our audience and also reading out some of our own work as well as...
Inspiration and Reconnecting
3/15/2021
With the first podcast of 2021 - Susan, Mary and Lea got together with Tom Rannachan - life coach, personal trainer and all around good egg - talking about how to change our lives and get more of what we want in life, We all need to make the best of any situation that we can. A lovely dose of mind/body/spirit balance to help get into the right mindset for the year ahead. Tom is the author of several books including 'Big Tam's Kilted Wurkoots', published by The Wee Book Company, as well as various other books such as: 'A Haunted History Walk: Edinburgh Old Town' and 'The Language of the Afterlife'. https://www.theweebookcompany.com/wee-book-shop/big-tams-kilted-wurkoots/?Page_ID=3610&refpid=76004&id=767957
Duration:01:02:34
Inspiration and Reconnecting
3/15/2021
With the first podcast of 2021 - Susan, Mary and Lea got together with Tom Rannachan - life coach, personal trainer and all around good egg - talking about how to change our lives and get more of what we want in life, We all need to make the best of any situation that we can. A lovely dose of mind/body/spirit balance to help get into the right mindset for the year ahead. Tom is the author of several books including 'Big Tam's Kilted Wurkoots', published by The Wee Book Company, as well as...
Duration:01:02:34
Writing as Therapy
11/29/2020
# Writing as Therapy Reading and writing have been proven to have immense therapeutic properties. Until we started talking about it we didn't realise how much this had come into our lives. Each of us have used writing as a therapy without our own lives as well as running courses with children and adults on writing themselves out of a crisis or using writing to promote self-esteem and self-confidence. We hope you enjoy listening to our bookish antics as much as we enjoyed making it.
Duration:00:46:39