Kylie Ladd

Kylie and I first met on Twitter quite a few years ago (as you do) and I remember being struck by her honesty about her writing and her experience with being published. On top of that, she’s smart and funny and all the things you could want in a Twitter buddy. She’s definitely somebody I’d recommend following. She writes the kinds of books I love, full of family drama, complicated characters, and psychological or social or moral dilemmas that put her characters into all sorts of sticky situations. Kylie is a really accomplished writer and that’s why I invited her on the podcast. She’s incredibly insightful when it comes to the process of writing and also brings her psychology training to the table which adds an extra layer of complexity to her stories, something we talk about in today’s podcast.In this episode Kylie and I took a deep dive into her novel The Way Back. We discussed her process, how she structures scenes, dialogue, pacing and the importance of reading your novel out loud and walking the dog for thinking time. I could’ve easily kept talking for at least another hour!About KylieKylie Ladd is a novelist, psychologist and freelance writer.Kylie’s novels have been published in Australia, New Zealand, the US, the UK and Europe. Her second novel, Last Summer, was highly commended in the 2011 Federation of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award for fiction, while her third, Into My Arms, was selected as one of Get Reading’s ‘Fifty Books You Can’t Put Down’ for 2013. She has also co-edited and co-authored two non-fiction books, Naked: Confessions of Adultery and Infidelity and Living with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias.Kylie’s essays and articles have appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, O Magazine, Good Medicine, Kill Your Darlings, Reader’s Digest and Wellbeing, amongst others.She holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and two children.Website - http://kylieladd.com.au/Follow Kylie on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Shownotes are available at https://www.writersbookclubpodcast.comNOTE: There is one mention of sexual assault in this episode.