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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Julie Carrick Dalton on The Last Beekeeper
Description: First pages are impossible… so we’re hearing from authors about how they got them right. In this episode, Julie Carrick Dalton discusses the first pages of her second novel, The Last Beekeeper. We talk about how she used the power of a front and back story to create tension and complexity, her love of place, the power of her descriptive details in terms of nature and time period, her use of rich familial relationships to tie us emotionally to the story, and how she handled going between two timelines.Dalton’s first pages can be foun...