Ann Garvin, Ph.D. is the USA Today Bestselling author, finalist for the Thomas Wolf Fiction Prize, and freelance contributor at the New York Times. Ann is a nurse, scientist, educator and author of six funny and sad novels. She writes about women who do too much in a world that asks too much from them. She currently teaches creative writing at Drexel University in their low residency MFA program and is the founder of the multiple award-winning Tall Poppy Writers.

In this episode:

• The background of Bummer Camp [2:26]

• How Ann structured the transformation of each character in her novel [5:27]

• The way she built in conflict and roadblocks for each of her characters [8:34]

• How Ann equates structuring her book to painting a wall [13:09]

• What Ann does when she underwrites to fill in the gaps [17:58]

• Focusing on action and movement in the book [20:47]

• How Ann uses the endings of chapters to “open the door” to the next chapter [22:17]

• Ann’s groundbreaking way of promoting the book [29:17]

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Ann’s Modern Love essay

He Wanted To Date Younger Women

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/style/modern-love-he-wanted-to-date-younger-women.html

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