Episode Description
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We talk with best-selling author Laura Van Wormer about building a career in publishing and fiction, then losing her ability to write after a devastating crash. She shares how she rebuilt her creative life through serialized audio storytelling with The Class of 74 and why “pivot” is sometimes the only way back to joy.
• working through podcast tech issues and learning a quick audio fix
• Laura’s childhood origin story for becoming a storyteller
• getting a start at Doubleday and meeting Jaclyn Onassis
• learning the business through celebrity books and big publishing moments
• quitting drinking at 27 and returning to writing at night
• writing fast under pressure on Dynasty then Dallas and Knott’s Landing projects
• launching Riverside Drive and navigating early breakout success
• building recurring characters and bringing sexuality into mainstream fiction
• surviving a wrong-way drunk driver crash and a long ICU recovery
• how concussions and brain injury changed Laura’s writing capacity
• using shorter “bite-sized” episodes to write again via a fiction podcast
• The Class of 74 as escapism with heart and a reminder not to drink and drive
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