226: Barbara Boehm Miller- Author of When You See Her
Our guest this week is Barbara Boehm Miller (When You See Her, Red Adept Publishing, January 2023). We discuss learning to cut out extraneous back story, why she set her novel in a carnival, and why she chose a plus-size woman for her protagonist. On the marketing side, we talk about how she started out as a lurker on social media and had to get comfortable with what to post. Then we compare notes on the struggle to find an agent in today's climate where ghosting has become acceptable, leaving authors hanging in limbo.
Barbara likes to write about secret societies and marginalized people and…
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