Finishing Your First Book: An Interview with James Blatch

WRITE NOW! Workshop Podcast: Write a Book, Change the World with Kitty Bucholtz · Apr 25, 2019 · 1h 13m

EPISODE 139I

Our guest today is former BBC reporter, James Blatch. You may recognize him as the co-host of the Self-Publishing Show podcast (formerly Self-Publishing Formula) with Mark Dawson. He shares with us the long journey of writing his first book, which should be out in a few months.

James tells us how he started his first novel when he was about twenty, but it didn't go anywhere. Then got the itch again about nine years ago. This time he happened to hear about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) about the same time and he sat down and just started writing. This burst of story…