The Fun We Had Here in 2024: Here's What You Missed!
Your guide to catching up on our author interviews, book club, behind-the-scenes of author life, and more
Hello, Protagonists!
It’s been a wonderfully packed year and we have so many new community members here at CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY, so I thought I’d give you an easy guide to catch up on all the fun we had in 2024!
So in this post, you’ll find:
🎥 Highlights of our 2024 Podcast Season - video and audio
🤓 Author Diaries (So Far)
✈️ Behind the Curtains: Netflix Red Carpet and International Book Tours
📚 Recap of Our 2024 Book Club for Writers & Curious Readers
Reminder: If you’re looking for a critique partner for your writing, our matchup is still happening HERE through the end of the year.
🎥 Highlights of our 2024 Podcast Season!
(Psst… did you know our podcast had video and audio versions?)
What an incredible season of interviews we had this year! I can hardly believe it. Here’s who we had as guests:
#1 New York Times bestselling fantasy author Pierce Brown
#1 New York Times bestselling romance author Ali Hazelwood
Substack bestseller and illlustrator Beth Spencer
Substack bestseller and writing teacher Jeannine Ouellette
#1 New York Times bestselling fantasy romance author Scarlett St. Clair
New York Times bestselling romance author Julie Soto
Critically acclaimed painter Sally Fama Cochrane
New York Times bestselling historical fiction author Alka Joshi
New York Times bestselling cookbook author Caroline Chambers
National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling YA author Sabaa Tahir
New York Times bestselling author T.J. Klune
New York Times bestselling cookbook author Danielle Walker
New York Times bestselling women’s fiction author Alison Espach
New York Times bestselling women’s fiction author J. Courtney Sullivan
New York Times bestselling YA fantasy authors Sara Raasch and Beth Revis
Entertainment Weekly journalist and novelist Maureen Lenker
The original BookTokker Cait Jacobs
Critically acclaimed non-profit founder and author Brian Weisfeld
New York Times bestselling fantasy author and small press publisher Taran Matharu
New York Times bestselling historical fiction author Kate Quinn
New York Times bestselling YA and MG author J.C. Cervantes
New York Times bestselling author and founder of Writing in Italy, Suzanne Young
Our podcast has both video and audio versions!
Video version: Find all the episodes here!
Captions and transcripts are available for all video episodes. (There’s a button on each episode that makes this easy for you).
Audio version:
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🤓 Author Diaries (So Far)
This is a year-long series of author diaries, where I take you behind-the-scenes: from idea to publication of a novel.
Diary #1: Book Deals and Auctions
Diary #2: The Secret Behind Book Cover Design
Diary #3: First Pass Pages and Why the Font in Books Matters
There will be plenty more diaries to come in 2025!
✈️ Behind the Curtains: Red Carpet and International Book Tours
Some crazy amazing things happened to me this year, so if you’d like a peek behind the curtains of one wild year in an author’s life, here you go:
📚 Recap of Our 2024 Book Club for Writers & Curious Readers
We started this book club in the Spring and it’s been one of the highlights of the year for me, getting to hang out with you and talk about books in the most nerdy way possible!
You can watch all our book club discussions and writer hangouts here.
This is what we read in 2024:
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (general fiction; magical realism)
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (general fiction; faux documentary)
The Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett (fantasy)
The Every by Dave Eggers (satire)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (humor/mystery)
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (non-fiction)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (general fiction; magical realism)
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister (general fiction)
And here’s the January Book Club invitation:
Plus, a preview of our Book Picks for the first half of 2025:
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🥳 That’s a wrap on 2024!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, everyone! I can’t wait to see you in the new year.
(Don’t forget to pop over to Apple Podcasts and leave me a small Xmas gift, haha!)
xoxo,
~evelyn
Thank you (and your guests) for keeping me inspired, Evelyn! I’ve given you a shiny, well-deserved five-star rating as a Christmas gift. 😁 Happy holidays!
As a new paid subscriber, thank you so much for this recap, Evelyn. I will definitely make use of it during this slower holiday period when I can catch up on my reading!