A Ten-Year Journey to The Call to Witchery: Lorraine Johnston on Contemporary Fantasy, Story Structure, and Marketing a Debut – The Writing Coach Ep. 243
Welcome back to The Writing Coach podcast.
Today I'm talking with my friend and client Lorraine Johnston about her debut contemporary fantasy novel, The Call to Witchery.
We're talking about a story that wouldn't leave her alone, a world where witches are celebrities, and how to market a debut novel one reader at a time.
What do you do when a story shows up in your morning journal and refuses to leave?
For Lorraine, it started in 2016, during her Artist's Way morning pages. Nearly ten years later, after years of learning story structure, a Story Grid developmental edit and more than a few…
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