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Book Journey
by Northern California Writers' Retreat
Welcome to Book Journey, the podcast where we learn how writers become authors. I’m Heather Lazare, founder and director of Northern California Writers’ Retreat, a juried fiction retreat held four times a year in Carmel Valley. norcalwritersretreat.substack.com
Episodes
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Book Journey with Andrea Thome
For the Book Journey this month, I chatted with our 2020 and 2023 alum, Andrea Thome, whose latest romance novel, Mine Again, publishes October 13th! On the pod we talked about The Hesse Creek series, Andrea’s first three books, and how she decided to publish them through Girl Friday Productions...
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Book Journey with Katherine Sherbrooke
When I met Kathy Sherbrooke at the retreat this year, I was excited to learn about her novel This Much Is True, which publishes September 18th from Sibylline Press. I was also interested in her entire book journey, as this marks her fifth publication! Kathy has a lot to share, from her first…
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Book Journey with Carinn Jade
Carinn Jade is currently living her dream: her second novel, The Dahlia Suite, was just published by Atria (Simon & Schuster), and her debut novel, The Astrology House, is being developed by Peacock, with Christina Ricci set to star and executive produce! But dreams are rarely linear. The first...
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Book Journey with Marianne Lonsdale
What’s it like to become a debut author at seventy-one? Pretty exhilarating! I had a fantastic time speaking to our 2024 alum, Marianne Lonsdale, about the journey to publish her novel When the Road Curves (Sibylline Press, June 2026). Marianne’s journey started a while back—when she was a new...
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Book Journey with Martha Conway
I have been a fan of Martha Conway’s writing for years. We first met at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference in 2014, when I read the opening pages of what would become her novel, The Underground River. She had met with me for a consultation and I ended up editing her book before her agent...
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Book Journey with Lina Patton
When Lina Patton finished college, she did what every responsible adult (who secretly wants to be a writer) should do: she went into advertising to make money. For years, she fought the idea of being a writer—it was not the smart, organized, Type-A thing to do. But when she applied to the George...
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Book Journey with Cheri Radke
When Cheri Radke joined us for our first ever Quail Retreat this past fall, she was already gearing up for the publication of her debut novel, An Accident of Dragons, which publishes April 28th from Erewhon Books, and imprint of Kensington. On the Book Journey podcast, Cheri and I talk about what...
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Book Journey with Caro Claire Burke
Sometimes, your third novel is your debut. I met Caro Claire Burke in 2017 when she was fresh out of college, taking her writing seriously for the first time. She was dabbling in fiction, playing around with pages that would become her first novel, a book which I edited in 2018. Caro attended our...
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Book Journey with Pamela Pan
This month, I spoke to our 2025 alum, Pamela Pan, about her writing journey--from her newly published poetry to her novel currently out on submission! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Book Journey: J. Morgyn White
I got a chance to speak to our 2019 alum, Joanne Morgyn White, who writes at J. Morgyn White, and was so impressed by how prolific and tenacious she is! We talked about the many books she’s written (17!) and how after signing with an agent and going out on submission, she decided to self-publish....
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Book Journey: Elizabeth Kemp
Sometimes novels are twenty years in the making. For our 2025 alum Elizabeth Kemp, something she witnessed on a cruise decades ago needled in her memory and after years of scribbling ideas on receipts, she sat down to write her novel during the pandemic. Writing can be like that—the writer as...
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Book Journey with Alissa Lee
The publishing world is small and in the same way that writers rely on word-of-mouth for their book recommendations to pass from one reader to the next, so does our retreat. So I’m going to tell you a little story about that. Alissa Lee attended Northern California Writers’ Retreat in 2023, the...
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Book Journey with Aja Gabel
In 2019, we were so lucky to have Aja Gabel join us for Northern California Writers’ Retreat! Pre-pandemic, we were located in the Santa Cruz mountains, and Aja and her Literary Agent, Andrea Morrison from Writers House, were both able to join us for four nights and five days in the redwoods.…
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Book Journey with Alka Joshi
I really like knowing my neighbors, and this particular neighbor I met in 2016. Alka and I share a fence line, and in May, I can pick the most delicious plums from her tree, which overhangs into our garden. I’ve been fortunate to watch Alka Joshi go from writer to published author—four times…
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Book Journey with Jasmine Guillory
Enjoy the conversation with our 2020 Author-in-Residence, Jasmine Guillory! Jasmine is a New York Times bestselling author of nine novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese's Book Club selection The Proposal, and Flirting Lessons. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Book Journey, the podcast where we learn how writers become authors. I’m Heather Lazare, founder and director of Northern California Writers’ Retreat, a juried fiction retreat held four times a year in Carmel Valley.
norcalwritersretreat.substack.com
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Welcome to Book Journey, the podcast where we learn how writers become authors. I’m Heather Lazare, founder and director of Northern California Writers’ Retreat, a juried fiction retreat held four times a year in Carmel Valley. norcalwritersretreat.substack.com
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