The Mommy’s Pen Podcast
By Sue and Nora Campbell
The Mommy’s Pen PodcastApr 07, 2020
CCLL - Chapter 21: Departures
FINAL CHAPTER! As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 20: The Donation
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 19: Unfinished Business
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 18: The Last Search Party
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 17: Ice Cream Interrupted
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 16: Anand & Andre
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 15: The Garage Sale
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 14: The Fundraiser
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 13: Martha Gets Fired
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 12: The wheelbarrow
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 11: The Cat People
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 10: The Rising Tide
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 9: The Farm Store
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 8: The Amusement Park
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 7: Posters and a Tarzan Rope
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 6: The Search
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 5: The Fort
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 4: Six Rafters Back
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break staycations, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 3: The Closet Door Opens
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 2: Sticky Situations
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
CCLL - Chapter 1: Arrivals
As a special treat to help us get through our extra long spring break, I’m releasing a chapter a day of me reading my novel THE CAT, THE CASH, THE LEAP, AND THE LIST.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
Frozen: Story Structure Analysis
Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record
Jamie Sumner, Author of ROLL WITH IT
Season 8, Episode 3: Award Winning Author Julie Sternberg
Season 8, Episode 2: Kristin Glasbergen, Author of the Dragon Canyon Series
This week we to talk Kristin Glasbergen, a Canadian author who was brilliant enough to mix Lit RPG with Dragons! She writes a middle grade series called Dragon Canyon. The first book is Fire of Four and we learn the story behind it and the help she got from her 12-year-old, dragon-loving daughter.
Season 8, Episode 1: Valerie Francis, Author of Nature Knights
As a bona fide story nerd, her passion for the craft of storytelling led her to become a Certified Story Grid Editor in 2017. Her non-fiction credits include a Story Grid Guide to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (publication TBA) and regular articles for the Fundamental Fridays column on Shawn Coyne’s Story Grid website. Valerie co-hosts two podcasts for writers. The first, The Story Grid Editor Roundtable, is focused on the craft of writing. Each week Valerie, along with four fellow Certified Story Grid Editors, analyze a film according to the editing method developed by Shawn Coyne. The second is focused entirely on book marketing. On The Book Launch Show, Valerie learns how to develop a relationship with her readers from book marketing expert, Tim Grahl.
S7, E6: School Visit Recap
S7, E5: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
S7, E4: Moana
S7, E3: Nora's Foolscap Continued
This week we brainstorm and work through some ideas in Nora's story plotting—playing with the idea of time travel in different eras. There might be a climax that takes place in the kitchen at Hampton Court Palace!
Read full show notes at Mommyspen.com.
S7, E2: Nora's Foolscap - Part 1
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S7, E1: Nora Starts Story Planning
S6, E8: The School for Good and Evil
Nora had to pilot the podcast ship this week due to severe little sister interference. She analyzes book 1 in the popular series The School for Good and Evil using the four-act structure.
S6, E7: Mary Poppins
This week, we're going backwards, looking at the original Mary Poppins movie after our analysis of Mary Poppins Returns last episode. This time, we're looking at it through the 5 Commandments of Story developed by Shawn Coyne of Story Grid.
S6, E6: Mary Poppins Returns
S6, E5: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
S6, E4: The Book of Boy
S6, E3: Front Desk by Kelly Yang - Review and Story Structure Analysis
If you're looking for books that feature diverse characters and tackle inclusion themes (and you should be), this lovely little book deserves a spot in your stack. It's the story of a young Chinese immigrant, Mia Tang, who helps her parents manage a hotel and uses her ever-improving English skills to help just about everyone around her.
Full show notes at Mommyspen.com
S6, E2: One Mixed-Up Night
S6, E1: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell - Story Structure Analysis
S5, E5: The Fort
Season 5, Episode 4: Six Rafters Back
S5, E3: The Closet Door Opens - Chapter 3 of The Cat, The Cash, The Leap, and the List
Since my book, The Cat, the Cash, the Leap and the List will be published on May 17, we decided to give you a preview by reading from it up to the first plot point. This episode is Chapter 3, where Martha's secretly stashed cat is discovered.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
S5, E2: Chapter 2 of The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List
For season 5, we've decided to read aloud from my forthcoming middle grade novel, The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List. Chapter 2 is called "Sticky Situations." We'll keep going until we hit the first plot point.
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
S5, E1: The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List - Chapter 1
New season, new format! Since my book, The Cat, the Cash, the Leap and the List will be published on May 17, we decided to give you a preview by reading from it up to the first plot point.
The story has three main kid characters, Martha, Sanjay and Anand. Nora will be reading all the scenes that are in Martha’s point of view, and I’ll be reading the scenes for the other two characters. (Man, I wish Alma could read already because it would be so cool if she could read Anand’s parts.)
You can get the professionally read version of the audiobook via Amazon and many other retailers.
S4, E8: Harry Potter Series - Overarching Story Structure Breakdown
S4, E7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Story Structure Analysis
Then we analyze the scene where Harry sees the Silver Doe and it leads him to the sword of Godric Gryffindor but then the necklace almost strangles him to death and Ron has to save him.
Finally, we talk about the term “epilogue.”
S4, E6: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Full Story Structure Analysis