Stark Reflections On Writing And Publishing

Mark interviews author Todd Fahnestock about his latest book for writers: Falling to Fly: The Book To Read Before Giving Up On Your Writing Dreams. This episode is sponsored by the Patrons and Coffee Buddies of the Stark Reflections Podcast.   Patreon for Stark Reflections Podcast Buy Mark a Coffee   In the interview Mark and Todd talk about: Who Todd is and the edge of the seat epic fantasy he writes A little bit about Todd's memoir of hiking the Colorado Trail with his 15-year-old son The pitch for Summer of the Fetch, one of his one-off books Todd's latest book FALLING TO FLY: The Book to Read Before Giving Up on Your Writing Dreams How the book includes several completely frank episodes where Todd fell flat on his face and failed, and yet picked himself up one more time The idea of failure being the classroom and success being the diploma Being bored with a story where there's no challenge, or struggle, or flaws in the main character How fantasy books saved Todd's life when he was young and the fact he