Episode 219 Find Your Character's #WishSong with Susan Wiggs

We have trouble believing you haven&#8217;t already heard of our guest this week, Susan Wiggs, but just in case&#8212;she&#8217;s the author of many many novels, a multiple #1 New York Times bestseller and an overall amazing storyteller. Her current novel, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062914095">The Lost and Found Bookshop</a>, is on sale now and her most recent bestseller, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062425584">The Oysterville Sewing Circle</a>, is just out in paperback.<br/><br/>We talk crafting a story, starting from the emotional journey versus the physical plot, building a character, choosing a setting and our collective addiction to writing books, and Susan reveals that she does indeed read fiction while she&#8217;s writing fiction&#8212;and it&#8217;s a good thing, too, because her reading list is long indeed. <br/><br/>Links from the Pod<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780765382474">Writing the Blockbuster Novel</a> by Albert Zuckerman<br/><br/><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/259/promised-land">This American Life, Promised Land</a> (the &#8220;I Wish&#8221; song episode)<br/><br/>#AmReading (all Susan, and you&#8217;ll see why)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781936672639?aff=AmWriting">Aging in Place</a> by Aaron D Murphy<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250076229">Being Mortal</a> by Atul Gawande<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781982146948">On Ocean Boulevard</a> by Mary Alice Monroe<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781632172440">House Lessons</a> by Erica Bauermeister<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781984801258">Untamed</a> by Glennon Doyle<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780385348713">The Splendid and the Vile</a> by Erik Larson<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780525511298">Sabrina and Corina</a> by Kali Fajardo-Anstine<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781501161933">The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</a> by Taylor Jenkins Reid<br