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    The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction
    The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction
    The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction
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    The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction

    Written by Jenna Blum

    Narrated by Jenna Blum

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Jenna Blum has scored critical and commercial success with her novels Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers. One of Oprah's Top Thirty Women's Writers, Blum has also taught creative writing at Boston University and master novel workshops for Grub Street Writers. Here Blum shares insights into the writing process and offers listeners the most important aspects of succeeding as an author
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 24, 2014
    ISBN9781470381400
    The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction
    Author

    Jenna Blum

    Jenna Blum is the New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family. She was voted one of Oprah readers’ Top 30 Women Writers on Oprah.com and is the co-founder/ CEO of literary social media marketing company A Mighty Blaze. Jenna earned her MA at Boston University in Creative Writing and has taught writing workshops at Grub Street Writers for over 20 years. She interviewed Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and is a professional public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally to speak about her work. Jenna is based in downtown Boston, where she lives across from Woodrow’s bench and is currently a dog mom to her black Lab puppy Henry Higgins. For more about Jenna, please visit www.jennablum.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.  

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