Episode 36: A Time to Thrill - Conversation with Aime Austin - featuring Blair Babylon
Episode 36: A Time to Thrill - Conversation with Aime Austin - featuring Blair Babylon
OMG this episode is epic!
This month I have a super interesting conversation with USA Today bestselling author Blair Babylon. Blair is another author I haven't seen in some time (damned COVID). Also, admittedly I tried not to talk to her too much about the pandemic as she's an expert Ph.D. in microbiology and virology. I was too afraid that the truth of what was happening in 2020. It was too heavy.
But enough about the dark pandemic past.
Blair is one of a few people I know who completed the Iowa Writer's Workshop. In the writing community that MFA is like sprinkling magical fairy dust of legitimate literary writership on someone. She and I talk about Iowa, Let's chat. I have *so* many questions!
You can find Blair:
Website: https://blairbabylon.com/
Free books every month!—https://blairbabylon.com/book-boyfriends-bulletin/
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/blair-babylon
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blairbabylonbooks
Blair's Facebook Chat Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlairBabylonBooks
Show Notes & books we discuss:
Whiplash (2014 film)
Author Frank Conroy (Iowa Writer's Workshop)
Author Thom Jones (Iowa Writer's Workshop)
Author Marilynne Robinson (Iowa Writer's Workshop)
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
University of Pennsylvania Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood (New York Times, September 20, 2005)
The Writer's Retreat by Julia Bartz
Author Bharati Mukherjee
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (short story published in the New Yorker on June 18, 1948)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
A Billionaire in Disguise by Blair Babylon
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Foward
Red Shirts by John Scalzi
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Spare by Prince Harry
Every Breath You Take by Blair Babylon
Mafia Bride by CD Reiss
Aime Austin is the author of the Casey Cort and Nicole Long Series of legal thrillers. She is also the host of the podcast, A Time to Thrill. When she’s not writing crime fiction or interviewing brilliant creators for her podcast, she’s in a yoga pose, knitting, or reading. Aime splits her time between Los Angeles and Budapest. Before turning to writing, Aime practiced family and criminal law in Cleveland, Ohio. Amazon affiliate links pay me a percentage of sales at no cost to you.