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How NY Times Bestselling Author Matt Haig Writes - Redux
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Internationally bestselling author, Matt Haig, spoke with me about how the novelist became an accidental "mental health expert," why writers need resilience, and the process behind The Midnight Library.
"The only reader you're ever going to truly know ... is yourself." – Matt Haig
Matt is the author of 20 books, including the #1 bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, five novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning children’s books. His work has been translated into over 40 languages.
His latest novel is The Midnight Library, a runaway, #1 bestseller and reader favorite of 2020. It was a Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Book of 2020, a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Amazon, the New York Public Library, among many others.
The New York Times said of the book, "An absorbing ... vision of limitless possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole different world available to us somehow, somewhere, [perhaps] exactly what’s wanted in these troubled and troubling times.”
Stay calm and write on …
**Audio excerpted courtesy Penguin Random House Audio from The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan.
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In this file Matt Haig and I discussed:
His superhero origins and the blog post that became a book
How to write "like no one's watching"
Inconsistent routines and the power of deadlines
Why writers need to surprise themselves
How he got Carey Mulligan to record his audiobook
And more!
Show Notes:
The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig (Amazon)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
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436 episodes
How NY Times Bestselling Author Matt Haig Writes - Redux
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
Manage episode 470095019 series 2503363
Internationally bestselling author, Matt Haig, spoke with me about how the novelist became an accidental "mental health expert," why writers need resilience, and the process behind The Midnight Library.
"The only reader you're ever going to truly know ... is yourself." – Matt Haig
Matt is the author of 20 books, including the #1 bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, five novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning children’s books. His work has been translated into over 40 languages.
His latest novel is The Midnight Library, a runaway, #1 bestseller and reader favorite of 2020. It was a Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Book of 2020, a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Amazon, the New York Public Library, among many others.
The New York Times said of the book, "An absorbing ... vision of limitless possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole different world available to us somehow, somewhere, [perhaps] exactly what’s wanted in these troubled and troubling times.”
Stay calm and write on …
**Audio excerpted courtesy Penguin Random House Audio from The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan.
[Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm]
[If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen]
In this file Matt Haig and I discussed:
His superhero origins and the blog post that became a book
How to write "like no one's watching"
Inconsistent routines and the power of deadlines
Why writers need to surprise themselves
How he got Carey Mulligan to record his audiobook
And more!
Show Notes:
The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig (Amazon)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
436 episodes
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