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Stephanie Oswald chats with author, Lindsey Rice, about her book Birdenwheel:

"BIRDENWHEEL features an ensemble cast of Deadheads in the 1990s who follow the iconic rock band, The Grateful Dead on their summer tour."
You can find the full book description on Lindsey Rice's website here.

It was such a fun conversation.

Stephanie first met Lindsey at her book release party in Salida, CO because the Grateful Dead cover band, Roundhouse Assembly, was playing and since following the Grateful Dead is the foundation of the book it had piqued Stephanie’s curiosity.

Lindsey describes her novel as a braided narrative that weaves together the lives of her characters as they follow the Grateful Dead.

You’ll have to listen to discover a unique poetry technique Lindsey used to creatively weave the music of the Grateful Dead into her novel.

There’s a lot packed into this episode from what inspired her characters to how she decided to self-publish.

At the end of the conversation, Lindsey offers great advice for new writers with the encouragement to keep writing:

" Keep writing, keep writing, keep writing, keep writing. I think writing is a practice and however it works for you, whether it is isolating yourself or it's doing it every single day in a journal, just develop your own practice of writing and be in a community too. I've also had a lot of writing dates with people. I had writing partners over the years where we would just meet and we would either write for 10, 15 minutes and then check in and then we do it again."

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