137: Elizabeth de Veer- Author of The Ocean in Winter

Hear us Roar · Apr 28, 2022 · 35m

I love Elizabeth's suggestion to "put your pen on the paper and see what happens." When she did that to an earlier manuscript that she initially conceived of as a romantic comedy, the result was a story of three sisters dealing with the aftermath of their mother's suicide when they were children. We discuss how her husband found her a literary agents, how it took three manuscripts for her agent to finally sell one of her books, and how, at this stage of her career, she doesn't fill she needs a critique group so much as a social setting to interface with other writers.

Elizabeth has a Master…