S3 E20: Heidi Heilig & Everyone Put Pets in Your Headshot

Claribel and Kat discuss the idea of looking back on your
old writing and seeing how far you’ve come. Plus, they touch on
the idea that the industry should shift to look at the story and
not at the trends. Then they interview Heidi Heilig, author of
the Shadow Players trilogy, about her journey with publishing,
creating conscientious communities, and how the publishing
community has changed since she first published 5 years ago. Plus
some discussion about trilogies vs duologies and how real life
events influence our writing.


BIO:


Heidi grew up in Hawaii where she rode horses and raised
peacocks, and then she moved to New York City and grew up even
more, as one tends to do. Her favorite thing, outside of writing,
is travel, and she has haggled for rugs in Morocco, hiked the
trails of the Ko’olau Valley, and huddled in a tent in Africa
while lions roared in the dark.


She holds an MFA from New York University in Musical Theatre
Writing, of all things, and she’s written books and lyrics for
shows including The Time Travelers Convention, Under
Construction, and The Hole. She lives in Brooklyn with her
husband and sons. They do not own a cat.


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Players #3)


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