Starry-Eyed and Beyond: A Conversation with Katherine Pollock

OUT NOW — New Episode!

Host PMELA COOK sits down with author KATHARINE POLLOCK for a smart, candid and joyfully nerdy conversation about creativity, fandom, rejection, resilience and the winding road to publication — from PhD manuscript to debut, and now her latest novel Starry-Eyed. They dive into writing craft, comedy, character development, confidence, comparison, and surviving the emotional rollercoaster of the publishing world, with warmth, wit and honesty for writers at any stage of the journey.

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Timestamps: 

[00:00] Finding creative community & weathering rejection
[01:59] Early writing memories & first sparks
[04:52] Studying writing — Honours to PhD
[07:02] Turning academic work into a debut novel
[16:00] From manuscript to Penguin Random House
[21:36] Writing Starry-Eyed: fandom, obsession & humour
[30:11] Craft, character growth & mother-daughter complexity
[40:14] Publication, promotion & lessons learned
[41:45] A new book in the works — nearly 60K words in

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