Episode 264: Interview with Becca Wierwille

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Today on Fable and the Verbivore, we’re sharing our rescent interview with writer Becca Wierwille. 

Becca is an award-winning middle grade author of the Road Trip Rescue adventure series, editor and book coach, and active member of the Instagram writing community. She and fellow author Amanda Trumpower recently premiered their podcast Ice Cream with Authors made especially for children ages 7 through 13 that features interviews with Christian middle grade writers where they read from their work, share about their stories, and give practical writing advice.

The third book in her “Road Trip Rescue” series titled Road Trip Redemption is set to release on April 9th, 2025. You can check out Becca’s work and connect with her on her author website beccawierwille.com, on YouTube at @BeccaWierwille, on Instagram at @beccawierwille, on Facebook at @beccawierwille, and on Twitter at @BeccaWierwille.

Throughout this episode, Becca talks about many different aspects of her writing life as well as lessons she’s learned along the way. Things like:

  • Starting to step your toe into writing in a lower stakes way – like through a blog

  • Playing with genre as a method for figuring out what’s yours

  • The power of asking the question: what if

  • Some of the ups and downs of working with an agent and giving yourself permission to pivot when you feel something is right for your work

  • Her Kickstarter crowdfunding process for her books and ideas for how it can help authors financially support their work and bring supporters into the writing process

  • Ways to help hone in on what you’d like to see for your cover, so that you can communicate your ideas well. Like through identifying symbols, color schemes, and existing covers you admire.

Towards the end, Becca walks us through how she first got into doing author visits in schools and suggestions that she has for any authors who’d like to explore starting to do them. She also shares how her own experiences helped lead to the creation of the Ice Cream with Authors podcast, so that kids who may not have access to author visits in a school setting can still enjoy them in an online format.  

We hope you enjoy this episode! It was such a great conversation filled with Becca’s heartfelt personal anecdotes and her useful takeaways on how to navigate the craft of writing in a way that prioritizes listening to what feels right for you. It was a pleasure to get to be a part of this!

Keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

Notes:

Becca is an award-winning middle grade author of the Road Trip Rescue adventure series, editor and book coach, and active member of the Instagram writing community. She and fellow author Amanda Trumpower recently premiered their podcast Ice Cream with Authors made especially for children ages 7 through 13 that features interviews with Christian middle grade writers where they read from their work, share about their stories, and give practical writing advice.

The third book in her “Road Trip Rescue” series titled Road Trip Redemption is set to release on April 9th, 2025.  

You can connect with Becca’s work and connect with her on her author website beccawierwille.com, on YouTube at @BeccaWierwille, on Instagram at @beccawierwille, on Facebook at @beccawierwille, and on Twitter at @BeccaWierwille.

Becca also mentions her cover designer M. S. Corley. More information on his designs can be found on his website at mscorley.com.

Books and Movies Mentioned:

Music from:https://filmmusic.io
‘Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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