In this week’s Corks & Conversation II with M.E. Browning, we had a fun talk that covered so many topics you will want to listen more than once …
Award winning author, Micki Browning, returns to our podcast this season to introduce our listeners to her new book Mercy Creek and to fill us in on what has happened over the past year. Mercy Creek is the second in her Jo Wyatt Mystery series about a Colorado Detective. As a retired police captain, Micki knows her stuff! Her books keep you guessing right to the end and her protagonist, Jo, is as tough as they come. Amazon compares her gritty crime fiction to the likes of Tana French and John Grisham! You can order your copy of the book here: indie bookshop.org or Amazon. And as a bonus this month, you can get the first book in the series, Shadow Ridge, on kindle for only $1.99!
When asked about how writing during the pandemic went, Micki said she was glad she had a deadline to keep her on track.
“I didn’t have a lot of creative energy during the pandemic at first, and you get so overwhelmed- I know there were some people who thought ‘oh, I’m home, I’ve got all this time, I’m going to really buckle down and this’ll be the time that I write the great American novel’- I didn’t have that. It was really tough for a while”
She also credits the support of her critique partner of eleven years, Mandy Mikulencak, for helping her stay on track.
“Really good partnership because we catch different things”
We covered so many interesting topics. For instance, we really liked what Micki had to say about book reviews.
“I heard one author say that if you have all great reviews, you haven’t reached enough of an audience. You’ve got this niche audience but once you start getting ‘you know, it was okay’, now you’ve started to reach beyond who you wrote it for and some of them are going to really like it and some are going to be ‘eh, meh.’”
This was such a fun and informative chat over a glass of cabernet sauvignon, appropriately named 1000 Stories!
Some highlights from the episode:
6:10 writing during the pandemic, creative energy or the lack thereof
7:45 the twist at the ending
9:02 “Serendipity came into play”
12:33 investigating missing children
15:35 small town dynamics – “In small towns, everyone has their secrets”
18:30 doom scrolling
25:00 Good company on Amazon
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