289: Stitching Together Multiple Timelines - Interview with Constance Sayers

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hey there word nerds!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Constance Sayers talking about her debut novel,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Witch in Time</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which is forthcoming in February.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A finalist for Alternating Current’s 2016 Luminaire Award for Best Prose, her short stories have appeared in Souvenir and Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women as well as The Sky is a Free Country.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She received her master of arts in English from George Mason University and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She attended The Bread Loaf Writers Conference where she studied with Charles Baxter and Lauren Groff. Currently, she is a media executive at Atlantic Media (publisher of The Atlantic). </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She lives in Maryland and is the co-founder of the Thoughtful Dog literary magazine. </span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Constance and I discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How a painting inspired</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Witch in Time</span></em></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Blending together multiple storylines into a cohesive narrative</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Managing pacing with different storylines</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Balancing writing and researching</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Novel-writing lessons from writing short stories</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plus, her #1 tip for