Podcast appearances and mentions of miranda beverly whittemore

A Little Bit Culty –This episode is a little bit different. Author Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is not a former cult member or a cult awareness expert like most of our guests, but her novel Fierce Little Thing weaves a culty tale that almost makes you think she is. It's a little like “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” except in this case, it's “I Know What You Did When You Were a Teenager 20 Summers Ago While Living on a Survivalist Commune Run by a Charismatic Maniac in Rural Maine.” She joins Sarah and Nippy to talk about communes, cult fiction, and how “The Vow” inspired the cultiverse of her latest story.About Our Guest: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet, June, and Set Me Free. A recipient of the Crazyhorse Prize in Fiction, she lives and writes in Brooklyn. Learn more at her official website And follow her on Instagram or linger beneath her linktree a while.~The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.~For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty~CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony AmesProduction Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will RetherfordAssociate Producer: Jess TardyTheme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Other Books by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Show Notes Other author mentions/influences: Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Hilary Mantel My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. The post MTTA 169: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore appeared first on Meet the Thriller Author.

Other Books by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Show Notes Other author mentions/influences: Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Hilary Mantel My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. The post MTTA 169: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore appeared first on Meet the Thriller Author.

In Episode 94, Kimberly McCreight (author of Friends Like These) joins me to deep dive into the mysteries & thrillers genre (including the difference between a mystery and a thriller, how involved authors are in deciding their books' titles, and what makes a great twist…and to talk about the inspiration behind her new novel. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights A bit about Friends Like These including Kimberly's inspiration for this story. The difference between a mystery and a thriller. How involved Kimberly and other authors are in determining which sub-genre their books will live in. How involved Kimberly and other authors are in determining their books' titles. How Kimberly comes up with her titles and what makes a good title. If manuscripts are ever submitted without a working tile. How involved Kimberly and other authors are in determining their books' jacket copy. What makes a good twist / ending. How Kimberly threads in her red herrings to lay the groundwork for a good twist. How Kimberly keeps her twists fresh amid the sea of thrillers out there. Whether Kimberly reads a lot within the thriller genre. Where Kimberly gets her inspiration from (or, more accurately, doesn't get her inspiration from). Kimberly's Book Recommendations [38:52] Two OLD Books She Loves The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [39:24] Three Womenby Lisa Taddeo | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [41:25] Two NEW Books She Loves Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [42:48] Fierce Little Thing by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org  [44:49] One Book She DIDN'T LOVE Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [46:37] One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (September 7, 2021) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [42:13] Last 5 Star Book(s) Kimberly Read [49:03] The Pushby Ashley Audrain | Buy from Amazon [48:49] Other Books Mentioned Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight [2:50] Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews [12:32] Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight [17:50] Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight [27:59] Animal by Lisa Taddeo [41:55] Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore [45:41] Other Links Picture of the real life upstate New York house that inspired the house in Friends Like These. About Kimberly Website | Instagram | Twitter Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Alex Awards and was called Entertainment Weekly's Favorite Book of the Year. Reconstructing Amelia has been optioned for film by HBO and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films. Ms. McCreight's second adult novel, Where They Found Her, was a USA Today bestseller and a Kirkus Best Mystery of the Year.  She is also the author of The New York Times bestselling young adult trilogy The Outliers (The Outliers, The Scattering and The Collide), optioned for film by Lionsgate and Reese Witherspoon's Pacific Standard. Her next novel, an adult mystery set in Park Slope, is forthcoming in 2020. Ms. McCreight attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.

On this Complicated Conversation, we chat with Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet, June, Set Me Free, and The Effects of Light. Her new novel, Fierce Little Thing, tells the story of five friends, now grown, who after receiving letters, return to the lakeside commune where they met as kids to confront their blackmailer. What did they do and what will they do are the central questions of this hauntingly gripping novel. ** Miranda talks about the development of her complicated female protagonist, Saskia, and how the novel opened up for her once she realized this was her story. Miranda and Carinn then relate over their similar pandemic experiences of communal living during the pandemic. (03:24) ** Saskia's grief and how that has shaped her entire life captivated us and Miranda shares why she wanted to explore that. (10:20) ** Friendship is a central aspect of Fierce Little Thing. Listen to hear how Miranda draws on the strength of her friendships with a group of people she's known since she was ten years old! (15:12) ** We never miss a chance to discuss the idea of being SEEN and accepted by someone else for who you truly are on the inside. Miranda gives us a new perspective on this and shares what that means to her and for her characters. (18:52) ** We chat with Miranda about this quote from her website: “I write novels. So far, each one has been about searching for one's place in the world, which, when I think about it, is what I've been doing for most of my life.” (26:34) ** Miranda discusses the unique structure of this book and how it helps propel the story forward. (31:40) ** Listen to hear the interesting advice Miranda received on her publication journey. (36:10) ** We talk astrology and Miranda checks a lot of the boxes of Cancer! (42:18) ** Miranda shares what she's reading and watching right now, which inspires us to finally watch one of our now favorite shows, Hacks. (44:46) Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @popfictionwomen and on Twitter @pop_women. To do a full deep dive, check out our website at http://www.popfictionwomen.com (www.popfictionwomen.com). Stay Complicated! Support this podcast

What makes a book a bestseller? It’s a question that’s captivated us as readers and as writers. In this episode, Eve and Julie talk to three experts who might have cracked the code: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, author of the New York Times bestseller Bittersweet; Dan Blank, founder of WeGrowMedia; and Matthew Jockers, co-author of The Bestseller Code and co-founder of Authors A.I. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com.

In Episode 50, Heather and Bennett talk about "Bittersweet" by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore and the TBS show The Detour. Other topics include: MLB, Wimbledon, the World Cup, Tamora Pierce, Billy on the Street, Toto, Weezer, Emmy nominations, Sandra Oh, Whole Foods, Ratatouille, Jane Unlimited, We Were Liars, Doug, Hey Arnold, Boy Meets World, Wrecked, Voltron, The Cruel Prince, The Dragon Prince, and The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

With women’s Day just behind us, I am focusing my reading this month on women authors. I notice more and more when I peruse big distributors like Amazon that there is now a genre called “Women’s Fiction.” Not so long ago, this same genre might have been called romance novels, and I take both designations as at least faintly negative, alerting readers that this is light fiction, all about squishy love and relationships, unlike the more muscled serious literature produced by men. In fact, if a reader really wants to read about relationships, between men and women, women and women, parents and children, and even our relationships with other animals, I think the category to look to is women’s fiction.Indeed, when I look back over women authors of the last century or more, I think most could be put in this category. Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Lively, Doris Lessing, and even Nadine Gordimer write primarily about family and relationships. Yes, Murdoch’s novels are deeply philosophical, and Gordimer’s deeply political, but the stories told are about relationships. Take for example one of Gordimer’s later novels, A Sport of Nature, Lively’s The Photograph, Lesssing’s The Golden Notebook, de Beauvoirs’ The Mandarins; all of these novels are about relationships, and all (as I read them) feminist novels. But I want to put in a word or two today for even more popular so-called romance writers like Jojo Moyes, Joan Silber, and Miranda Beverly-Whittemore. Recently, after finally finishing an agonizingly long and gruesome psychological thriller, a reader friend loaned me a stack of library books when I told her I needed to read something more hopeful and optimistic. The stack included Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter From Your Lover, and The Horse Dancer both of which were deeply perceptive about how relationships go wrong, and how they can sometimes be righted, perhaps with just a few moments of real honesty or a real attempt to un-self, in Murdoch’s words, to really attend to the other. The Horse Dancer not only reveals much about how secrets and  hiding of insecurities prevents real understanding between lovers, and between children and parents, it also describes a beautiful relationship between a girl and her horse, and much advice about how we ought to attend to and treat animals in our lives. Now I agree that romance novels often become formulaic, with too much talk of six-pack abdomens and hot, smoky sex. And, as in The Last Letter From Your Lover, too much jerking around of the readers, first giving one hope of a breakthrough, a reunion, a happy ending, and then ripping the carpet out from under those hopes, only to begin to build a new anticipation of resolution, a new thread of hope cut off again, and again. Still, the characters in the novels mentioned are believable and fully fleshed out, and the circumstances usually quite plausible. Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s fine novel, Set Me Free not only describes human relationships well and perceptively, it also tells us a lot about racism and the broken promises Native Americans have continually faced. I’m sure some readers would want to insist that Set Me Free is much more than a romance or women’s fiction book, but my point is that many in this poorly defined genre are much more than romances.I learned long ago that I loved what many critics deride as ‘chick flicks,’ for many of the same reasons I find so-called romance novels important and uplifting. When I look back and recall why I so loved Edith Wharton. Alice Munro, Willa Cather, I discover that it was their acute understanding of relationships that endeared them to me. Would Jane Austin and Emily Bronte (were they writing today) be labeled romance writers? Certainly, relationships between lovers were key part of their works. At various times in my reading life I have rejected whole genres of writing: science-fiction, mysteries, only to discover my reasons were superficial and largely unjustified. So-called romance novels are, I suppose, my latest treasure-trove of overlooked or too quickly rejected novels. Jojo Moyes has made me laugh out loud and cry as she describes the sad but often laughable antics of lovers.I have not learned much from self-help books on how to make relationships work, or how and when to jettison ones that don’t, but novels (especially those by women) have shown me just how deceit tarnishes and/or destroys relationships, just how even moments of real honesty can restart a relationship in trouble. I am a reader who loves to read about families, and here, again, I think the place to go is often this slippery genre I’m trying to characterize.Next week I will return to my usual habit of reviewing a single novel when I review Rene Denfeld’s The Child Finder, another novel primarily about relationships. But today, I am happy to be recommending to you women’s fiction, which is neither soft nor shallow.

Recorded on February 8, 2017 Book Talk starts at: 32:03 The 2017 Sweater KAL is over!  The Winners are announced at the end of the podcast. Get ready for our next Knit-along!  We will be hosting a Colorwork KAL starting on March 1, and ending on May 1, 2017.  Chat it up and make plans in our Colorwork KAL Chatter Thread.  Browse our Colorwork Bundle for inspiration.  Knit anything with colorwork - that means intarsia, stranded colorwork, stripes, brioch, double knitting, or slipped stitches.  We encourage you to challenge yourself.  Pick a project larger than a mug cozy and you're good to go!   The Chicks will be at Stitches West 2017  - February 23-26, 2017 at the  Santa Clara Convention Center/Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, CA.  We will be having our regular meet-up in the Hyatt bar on Saturday afternoon - come see us!  Also, check out the booths (and consider knitting or crocheting projects) for two of our favorite knitting charities: the Mother Bear Project will be at booth 704, and Knitted Knockers will be at in Booth 745.  Also, Halos of Hope will be in Booths 7545 & 1003. NAMASTE BAG GIVEAWAY:  We have 2 Namaste Bags to give away!  The first one (the larger one above) is the Harlow Bag, donated by Barb.  The second one is the Poppins Bag (the smaller one below), donated by Stella650.  They are both gently used...but in truth, they look brand new!  Namaste is no longer in business, so if you always wanted a Namaste bag, now is your chance. Go to our Ravelry Group and look for the Namaste Bag Giveaway and follow the prompt.  You must be a member of the group to win. Contest ends on March 15th. KNITTING Tracie has finished: * Pussyhat for her brother-in-law, using the Stashbusting Helix Hat pattern by Jessica Rose * forest park cowl by Liz Abinante (free) in Noro Cash Aroha colorway 100 * A set of C-cup Knitted Knockers, using Cascade Ultra-Pima in the Sage Colorway   Barb has finished: * a KitKat Hat by Andre Sue Knits, using Big Twist in a light raspberry colorway. * Ex Boyfriends by Jennifer Beever using a Caron Cake in the Funfetti colorway Tracie has cast-on: * Another Pussycat in Plymouth Toybox Collection Rainbow * School's Out child's cardigan by Katya Frankel in Shaggy Bear Farms merino with Superwash and Tussah Silk * Kallisti Cowl by Hillary Smith Callis in Caron Cake int the Blueberry Kiwi colorway Tracie is continuing to work on: *Vanilla Socks in ONline Supersocke 100 Living Color * Joey Sweater by Kate Oates, using Cascade Hollywood in the Walnut colorway Barb has cast-on: * Knotted Rib hat by Cheryl Beckerich, using Vanna's Choice in the Cranberry colorway * Levitate Poncho by Yvonne Poon, using Noro Kureopatora in the 2015 colorway Barb is still working on: * Wing Span by maylin Tri-Coterie Designs using Crystal Palace Mini Mochi in a green/blue/purple colorway * Vanilla is the New Black by Anneh Fletcher * Endless Spring Cardigan by Anna Rauf using GnomeAcres Sparkle Gnome in the Wuv Twue Wuv colorway * Sabine Cardigan by Coco Knits, using Indigodragonfly Merino Single Lace in the 20,000 Lawyers Under the Sea BOOKS Tracie has finished: * The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell * Temple Secrets by Susan Gabriel Barb has finished: * Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman’s Work by Mari Grana * 6oo Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster *  The Sleeper by Emily Barr *  Bitterweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore   Tracie is currently reading: * The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood * The Hypnotist's Love Story Barb is currently reading: * The Last One: A Novel by Alexandra Oliva * Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Barb recommends the Book Cougars Podcast!

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the guest. Her new novel, Bittersweet, is now available from Crown. It is a New York Times bestseller and the official June selection of The TNB Book Club. Entertainment Weekly says “What begins a little like Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep quickly warps into a sickly addictive thriller…think ABC’s Revenge when it was good, only more scandalous…With books like Bittersweet to stuff in beach bags, it’s beginning to feel a lot more like summer." And The New York Times Book Review says "A fairy tale aspect—of the Grimm, not the Disney variety—pervades the novel, which artfully builds an increasing sense of menace…Like a Downton-in-Vermont, Bittersweet takes swift, implausible plot turns, and its family secrets flow like a bottomless magnum of champagne, but Beverly-Whittemore succeeds in shining a light into the dark, brutal flaws of the human heart.” Monologue topics:  success, competition, ego, Vanity Fair, The Last Magazine.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices