#356 - BT Hayes on EXPECTATIONS

High school creative writing teacher and first-time author BT Hayes chats with Trey Elling about EXPECTATIONS. Topics include: The feeling of being published for the first time (0:35) The basis of Expectations (1:32) A timeline for the book (2:10) Enjoying the research (3:28) Picking up teenage dialogue thru his day job (5:33) His fears for his own daughter manifesting in the book (7:25) Have his kids read the book? (9:07) A nervousness in sharing a morbid piece of work (9:24) Why the title is "Expectations" (11:13) Playing with preconceived notions (11:50) A lesson from writing his first novel (14:16)