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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Day 9: Getting Your Reader to Root for Your Protagonist with Katherine Sherbrooke
Description: Today we hear from author Katherine Sherbrooke about how to make your reader root for your protagonist and why you should even need to try. What if your character is an awful person? What if they don’t want to do anything? We talk about navigating these complexities in order to keep the reader engaged.Katherine Sherbrooke is the author of a family memoir called Finding Home and three novels: the New York Times notable Leaving Coy’s Hill, which was selected for 2022 MA Book Award’s Honors in Fiction prize, and Fill the Sky, the winner of a 2017 Indep...