Episode 6: The one where we interview Corinne Cunningham

We are so excited to share our first author interview! We recently spoke with Corinne Cunningham, a new emerging author who just released her first book. Corinne’s book is called Farm Girl and Laura and I encourage you to pick up a copy and give it a read. It’s a beautiful story about the family and places we choose.

We talked with Corinne for well over an hour and it was difficult to cut this conversation down to something roughly the same length as our typical episode. But, don’t worry, if you want to hear the full conversation you can find it on our Patreon page. For just $5 a month you can support this podcast and get full author interviews each month.

In this episode we still talk about when Corinne first fell in love with writing, her process for writing Farm Girl and how her writing process shifted and changed over the years, querying, self-publishing, the way we gain confidence through experience, and so much more. We hope you enjoy this conversation and that you will check out Corinne Cunningham.

Into the woods,
Fable & The Verbivore

If you’re interested in learning more about Corinne:

Her website
Her Instagram
Her book

Notes from this episode:

Corinne mentions taking a writing class at Grub Street in Boston.

Fable mentions (and slightly misremembers) this quote from Madeleine L’Engle’s book A Circle of Quiet:

‘We do like to have Miss L’Engle on this program. Lots of people become very prima donna-is when they’ve had as much success as she has, but it hasn’t affected her at all.’
Hasn’t it?
Of course it has. It’s made me free to go out to meet people without tangling in the pride which is an inevitable part of the sense of failure. W. Somerset Maugham said, ‘The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.’
I recorded this rather bitterly in my journal during the time of failure. It’s true.
It’s true. My very small success has had a joyfully liberating effect; so has passing the half-century mark and being happily married; I am free to reach out and touch people with out being misunderstood.

Fable mentions (and also misquotes) this instagram post from @brehallbooks about plotters vs “discovery writers”

Corinne mentions this blog post by Rachael Herron on revision.

We sadly had to cut from our conversation the section where we talked about Corinne’s brother (who designed the cover), but if you are curious to check out his print shop in Zurich you can find our more about it here. You can also listen to this portion of the conversation by becoming a member on Patreon.

Corinne also mentions the book distributor, Ingram Spark, in the full unedited conversation on Patreon.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Km Weiland’s Outlining Your Novel

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