After The Story with Nancy Jackson
After The Story - with Nancy Jackson - Episode 0
This podcast discusses each chapter of Choices Like Rivers and each episode is posted directly after the book episode. This episode in an introduction to this podcast.
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This is a unique podcast. The idea first came to me over a year ago. I have written six novels and three of them are on Audible.
I had many complaints that my readers did not want to subscribe to Audible just to listen to my books. They thought it was just too expensive of a subscription.
Then I decided to have my narrator record the next books without an exclusive to Audible. I realized I wanted full control over my audio books just as I have over the written books.
Then after writing Choices Like Rivers and Carrie Border a completely new series of books began to develop in my mind. I researched for almost two full years.
They would be filled with historical events, but with a different take. In my research I had found many things that had developed under the surface but that had never been revealed to the public.
I began to imagine a girl who experienced these things first had and then her innate curiosity led her to become an investigative journalist.
Night after night when I would lay down the information that I had learned rumbled through my head and I could see how my protagonist would be intwined in the events, how she would learn various facts, and then find herself in danger because of it.
Then I felt an emotional stall of sorts. I couldn’t move forward for some unknown reason. So, I painted. It was so necessary to heal my soul. Art is healing. Creativity in a beautiful sense was cleansing. Yes, writing fiction is creative, but I often don’t feel that it is healing for me. Necessary yes, but it pulls a lot from me.
Painting for almost a year was just want I needed. Honestly the way I felt I just wasn’t sure I would ever write again. The desire had total gone.
Then one day while I was at the gym, I heard the Lord say, “Write it this way.” I saw it all differently and the passion and fever to write had once again flooded heart and mind.
From the moment two years ago that I decided I wanted to write on those topics, I felt a real need to talk to readers about the research behind the story. Where I researched, the books, I read and my personal thoughts on it all. But how to do that while also doing a fiction novel evaded me.
Then the idea came to have a podcast where interested readers to get a behind the story sense of why I wrote what I wrote and my thoughts on the matter that shaped the story.
Because writing in my vocation and it costs a lot to pay a professional narrator to record the books, I can’t release them for free. But I knew I could do better than Audible.
So, I am releasing the professionally narrated books in a subscription podcast for only $5 a month at the time of this episode and you are free to cancel at any time. You can listen to as many. of my books as you have time for. That is less than one eBook.
In conjunction with that, I decided to do this free podcast with each episode synching with the paid episode of the book. So, a reader can listen to the book episode then right after hear my analysis and thoughts.
I started with Choices Like Rivers and then Carrie Border. Those two books create a natural flow right into the new material I am writing now.
The new material will continue on for as long as I have interesting events and crimes to write about. When I have reached a natural break that would make a good book, I will take that material and publish it into a written book, hard cover, soft cover, and ebook.
I will keep doing this until the end. How many books will that be? I don’t know. Many I suspect.
So for only $5 a month you will get an ongoing audio delivery of my novels and then this free podcast provided as well.
This podcast is a sort of story behind the story and a lot of me will be revealed here. The primary pool I draw from in my writing is from my own life and personal experiences, many quite interesting and unique.
This episode, episode zero, is simply an introduction and explanation of what this podcast is and what to expect from it. I hope you enjoy it!
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