290: Shayla Dugan- Author of Learning to Swim
This week's guest is Shayla Dugan (Learning to Swim, Egret Lake Books, May 2024). We discuss how adding humor can provide a more grounded emotional experience for a reader. what it's like writing a character at a life stage you haven't yet experienced, and how a background in helping professions like nursing, social work, and psychology contributes to understanding complex family dynamics in a novel. Then stay tuned for how Shayla located, then partnered with a novice publisher and how a chance remark by her husband led to her most effective marketing tool.
Shayla Dugan is a writer making her…
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