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STORYBEAST

A podcast for story lovers, Storybeast explores how we weave tales and why we love them. Co-hosts Ghabiba Weston and C. Shack chat with each other and legendary guests about different elements of various books, tv shows, plays, and other modalities to explore this fundamental aspect of humanity. Come for the story, stay for the snacks.

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01:00:14

Episode #48: The Season 2 Finale! On fear, biscuits,...

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2023/10/05

Welcome back to the final Season 2 episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. WARNING: This episode contains *a lot* of food talk! In this season finale, you'll hear about: writing fear separating your fear from your characters' fear(s) working through and alongside fear support systems and their value when telling stories that hit deep the beauty on the other side of fear fear as a

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00:44:22

Episode #47: Kelly Andrew on the Whispering Dark,...

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2023/09/28

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Kelly Andrew. Kelly Andrew is an author, wife, mother, and dog-mom from New England. When not busy writing she can be found parsing through flea markets or hand-feeding her crows. Kelly is the author of THE WHISPERING DARK and the forthcoming YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES, releasing 2 April

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00:36:05

Episode #46: The cooking show metaphor and other gems...

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2023/09/21

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode, you'll hear: about story flavour bombs the Beasts share what you can learn from cooking shows as a writer: microtension! scene hops! pacing! looking at villainy from a different perspective! relationship building! trust! the Beasts discuss tools for character building, including flaws. Shout out to the Negative

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01:21:41

Episode #45: With Stacey McEwan on the catharsis of...

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2023/09/14

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Stacey McEwan. Stacey is a fantasy author and school teacher, living on the Gold Coast in Australia with her husband and two kids. She is known on social media for relentlessly bothering her husband with ridiculous antics, as well as skits entitled “Me vs. Brain”. Stacey released

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01:01:23

Episode #44: Reading as a writer

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2023/09/07

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast! This week, Gabi and Nadine fly solo in their chat about the transformative power of story. In this episode, you'll hear about: interpreting excerpts by emotion using sentence cadence and rhythm to evoke emotion how reading as a writer might take different forms for you reading while drafting vs reading while revising playing with structure: timelines, white space, physical placement and formation of words on a page, borrowing craft

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00:42:45

Episode #43: Rachel Gillig on One Dark Window, Dark...

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2023/08/31

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Rachel Gillig. Rachel Gillig was born and raised on the California coast. She is an author, with a B.A. in literary theory and criticism from UC Davis. If she is not ensconced in blankets dreaming up her next novel, Rachel is in her garden or walking with her husband, son, and their

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00:40:54

Episode #42: On creative spaces, trash raccoons, and...

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2023/08/24

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode, you'll hear: about the dynamics of creative spaces: growing into your creative space, and creative spaces that grow with you one of us confessing to being a trash raccoon (can you guess who?) and one being a total Sheldon about the values and trials of using music, vision boards, and timers in your creative

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01:20:55

Episode #41: With Rachel Jenkins, on selling yourself...

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2023/08/17

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Rachel Jenkins. Rachel loves stories in all forms. An educator at heart, she has taught literature and communications at the high school level and coordinated learning assistance programming at the college level. She helped develop the Public Speaking Center at UT Austin and

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01:00:08

Episode #40: The birth of Spicy Hope and personal...

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2023/08/10

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode: Courtney makes a public apology to one of our Beasties about a Very Serious Snack Oversight Courtney picks a fight with Gabi and gets one with Nadine instead Girl dinners get mixed reviews from Gabi The Beasts discuss publishing: knowing a lot and knowing when you don't know enough You'll hear about getting out of

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00:42:59

Episode #39: With Rachel Griffin on witches, Bring Me...

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2023/08/03

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Rachel Griffin. Rachel Griffin is the New York Times bestselling author of THE NATURE OF WITCHES, WILD IS THE WITCH and her latest BRING ME YOUR MIDNIGHT, releasing summer of 2023 with Sourcebooks Fire. When she isn’t writing, you can find her wandering the Pacific Northwest,

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00:40:24

Episode #38: On Romantasy, the publishing landscape,...

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2023/07/27

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode: Nadine exorcises the ghost in the machine the Beasts dive into Romantasy, including the associate importance of beats and genre expectations Courtney references some doorstopper standalones and companion novels she loves the Beasts discuss the change in the publishing landscape and considerations for writers

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00:43:46

Episode #37: Lifting the curtain on traditional...

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2023/07/20

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack, Ghabiba Weston, and Nadine Flint have the pleasure of interviewing Marina Green. Marina Green was lucky enough to grow up in a house filled with books. It is no wonder that, even before she learned how to read, she used to make up her own stories that she would recite to her parents every night before bed. Her love and eclectic taste for story

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00:36:49

Episode #36: On mid-way markers and Courtney's...

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2023/07/13

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode: you'll hear about routines and how they're not only for kids. the Beasts discuss where they've been finding inspiration lately. the Beasts dissect beliefs around first lines. Ghabiba cannot understand Time. Courtney's beautiful book cover gets some much deserved love. Nadine shares a South African snack Ghabiba

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00:47:00

Episode #35: H.M. Long on her Author Journey,...

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2023/07/06

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack, Ghabiba Weston, and Nadine Flint have the pleasure of interviewing H.M. Long. H. M. Long is a Canadian fantasy writer, author of the HALL OF SMOKE series and THE WINTER SEA series who loves history, hiking, and exploring the world. She lives in Ontario, but can often be spotted snooping about European museums or wandering the Alps. In this

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00:41:43

Episode #34: Bookish Love, in which the trio gushes...

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2023/06/29

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode: you'll hear about buttons for installing taste the Beasts discuss dark hair, sharp jawlines, and essential elements for a good book partner Courtney brings a surprise show-and-tell piece the Beasts touch on pacing as a device for making a love interest compelling Ghabiba shares (but only a little)

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00:37:40

Episode #33: Bianca Marais on Writing with Rage

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2023/06/22

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. Bianca Marais is the author of three novels, the latest being the bestselling THE WITCHES OF MOONSHYNE MANOR. She's a cohost on the popular podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, and has won an Excellence in Teaching Award for teaching creative writing through U of T's SCS. In this episode you'll hear about: Bianca's perspective on writing with

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00:49:57

Episode #32: The Beastly MSWL's

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2023/06/15

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer Beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode: the Beasts talk manuscript wish lists and what's on thiers the Beasts wingwomen each other in the true spirit of friendship Courtney turns Midnight Chanter with "we like it, we love it, we want some more of it". there may or may not be mentions of dragons and *cough* dark haired MMC's someone is

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00:48:26

Episode #31: With GennaRose Nethercott on Being 99%...

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2023/06/08

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, THE LUMBERJACK'S DOVE, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and whether authoring novels, poems, ballads, or even fold-up paper cootie catchers, her projects are all rooted in myth—and what our stories reveal about who we are. She tours nationally and internationally

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00:48:27

Episode #30: Synopses, sharpies, and gold stars

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2023/06/01

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story with Summer Beast, Nadine Flint. In this episode: none of us know what Victoria Day is the plural of synopsis comes into question we tackle multiple timeline, dual POV synopses we discuss how to reframe your stories to hook an agent we highlight overlapping tools for both query letters and synopses Courtney encourages leaning into feelings and stakes when

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00:43:55

Episode #29: With Lauren Blackwood on dramatic...

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2023/05/25

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. Lauren Blackwood is a Jamaican American living in Virginia who writes Romance-heavy Fantasy for most ages. When not writing, she's a musician and a tiramisu connoisseur. She's the New York Times bestselling author of WITHIN THESE WICKED WALLS and WILDBLOOD. **Keep an eye out for THE DANGEROUS ONES, publication planned for summer 2024.** In this episode you'll

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