370: Behind the Cowriting Process of a Debut Author Duo — Interview with Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman have been great friends for over 20 years and are now co-authors. Their friendship has sustained them through the ups and downs of raising kids, juggling careers, and creating new family traditions.</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Girls with Bright Futures</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, their debut novel, out now, is a dark, suspenseful journey into the cutthroat world of college admissions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Between the two of them, they have undergraduate degrees from Princeton University and the University of Michigan, a law degree from UC Berkeley, careers in marketing, non-profit leadership, and biotechnology law, two husbands, and four kids (three of whom have survived the college admissions process without a single parent landing in jail). </span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Tracy, Wendy, and I discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How focusing on mother-daughter relationships escalated the tension.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What they learned from keeping their cowriting process intentionally simple.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why they made their alpha protagonist a bit of an outsider.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Plus, their #1 tip for writers</em>.</span></p> <p><br /> <span style="font-weight: 400;">For more info and show notes: <a href= "https://diymfa.com/podcast/episode-370-tracy-dobmeier-wendy-katzman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diymfa.com/370</a></span></p>