Episode 36: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Blair Babylon

OMG this episode is epic! This month I have a super interesting conversation with USA Today bestselling author Blair Babylon. Blair is another author I haven't seen in some time (damned COVID). Also, admittedly I tried not to talk to her too much about the pandemic as she's an expert Ph.D. in microbiology and virology. I was too afraid that the truth of what was happening in 2020. It was all too was heavy. On the other hand, Blair is one of a few people I know who completed the Iowa Writer's Workshop. In the writing community that MFA is like sprinkling magical fairy dust of legitimate literary writership on someone. Let's chat. I have *so* many questions! You can find Blair: Website: https://blairbabylon.com/ Free books every month!—https://blairbabylon.com/book-boyfriends-bulletin/ Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/blair-babylon TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blairbabylonbooks Blair's Facebook Chat Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlairBabylonBooks Show Notes & books we discuss: Whiplash (2014 film) Author Frank Conroy (Iowa Writer's Workshop) Author Thom Jones (Iowa Writer's Workshop) Author Marilynne Robinson (Iowa Writer's Workshop) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell University of Pennsylvania Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood (New York Times, September 20, 2005) The Writer's Retreat by Julia Bartz Author Bharati Mukherjee The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (short story published in the New Yorker on June 18, 1948) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein A Billionaire in Disguise by Blair Babylon Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Foward Red Shirts by John Scalzi Old Man's War by John Scalzi Spare by Prince Harry Every Breath You Take by Blair Babylon Mafia Bride by CD Reiss