The Tale of a Book Trailer
“Cinematic writing” A new craft talk caught my eye. Halfway through writing TANGLES, and experiencing a growing sense of this-is-the-one,...
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kaysmithblum
Oct 716 min read
The Many Voices of Nuclear…that shaped my debut novel, TANGLES
My deep dive into the world of all things nuclear began with a random conversation with a writing pal, discussing my concept for a new...
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kaysmithblum
Sep 315 min read
Science and Secrecy… a chat with Alex Wellerstein, author of Restricted Data
The last week of August, this dropped into my inbox forwarded by Gerry Pollett: The Sierra Club Grassroots Network Nuclear Free Team is...
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kaysmithblum
Aug 510 min read
A Frank Conversation: an informative chat with Joshua Frank
My newly hired publicist emails me a link to an article in the Washington Post from July 10th covering a restart effort on Three Mile...
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kaysmithblum
Jul 115 min read
Pritikin’s Battle with Plutonium
A chat with Trisha Pritikin_author of The Hanford Plaintiffs In the Fall of 2022, I had made my way through several volumes of excellent...
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kaysmithblum
Jun 311 min read
All Things Greene
A chat with Gayle Greene_author of The Woman Who Knew Too Much I’d been serving on the editorial committee for an anthology of...
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kaysmithblum
May 613 min read
Of time and men and one bookseller...my chat with Richard Rhodes
I’d wandered down to Peter Miller Books—one of Seattle’s treasures—the legendary architecture and design bookshop in Pioneer Square....
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kaysmithblum
Apr 18 min read
Pollett on Nuclear Pollution
On March 14, 2024, a news alert from the Seattle Times dropped into my email inbox with the headline: "In WA, another massive melter aims...
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kaysmithblum
Mar 46 min read
My interview with Michele Gerber, author of On The Home Front
As any historical fiction author knows, research is good but talking to folks who have history in the place your are writing about is...
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kaysmithblum
Mar 110 min read
Writeon, but first...
As I launch my blog, on this first day of March, I wanted to reflect upon the journey to a publication contract. As I'm sure many of my...
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Ruthann Bowen
Dec 29, 20231 min read
Writer's Journey Blog Coming Spring 2024
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