8 Tips on Balancing Work and Writing

By Evan Ramzipoor @ER_Ramzipoor 

Part of The Writer's Life Series

JH: It's not easy finding the balance between working and writing, but it's something almost every writers faces at some point. Evan Ramzipoor returns to the lecture hall today, with tips on how to find that precious balance 

Evan Roxanna Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science at UC Berkeley, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney's and The Ventriloquists is her first novel. She lives with her partner and a terrier mix named Lada

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Writing and the Debut Author Experience

By Evan Ramzipoor @ER_Ramzipoor and Noelle Salazar @noelle_salazar 

Part of The Writer's Life Series

JH: We have something a little different and fun today. I don’t do many author interviews here, but from time to time, I have authors (and agents and editors), who interview each other.

Evan Ramzipoor and Noelle Salazar first met at Book Expo America: two wide-eyed first-time authors signing their World War II novels at the same table. Evan’s book The Ventriloquists, forthcoming on August 27, is about ragtag resistance fighters who risk everything to pull an elaborate prank on the Nazis. Noelle’s book The Flight Girls, which was released a few short weeks ago, follows a group of pilots in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program as they fight for their country and the people they love.

The two authors interviewed each other on the craft of writing and the debut author experience. 

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Writing About Slavery in Historical Fiction

By E.R. Ramzipoor, @ER_Ramzipoor

Part of the How They Do It Series

JH: With some topics, it's tough to strike a balance between approaching the subject authentically but not romantically, and being honest about it without normalizing it. Today, E.R. Ramzipoor visits the lecture hall to share some tips on how to write about slavery in historical fiction.

E.R. Ramzipoor is a writer and freelance editor represented by Kristin Nelson of NLA. She is based in Oakland, CA. Her novel The Ventriloquists, about a World War II newspaper heist, is coming out August 2019.

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Token or Broken? Writing LGBT*

By E.R. Ramzipoor, @ER_Ramzipoor

Part of the How They Do It Series

JH: Writing about people different from ourselves has frequently been a challenge for writers, but our readers are just as diverse as the world we live in. Yet often, even when we want to write more diverse characters, we're not sure how. Today, E.R. Ramzipoor visits the lecture hall to share some tips on how to write LGBT* without falling into clichés and stereotypes.

E.R. is a writer and freelance editor represented by Kristin Nelson of NLA. She is based in Berkeley, CA, where she’s working on a novel about a World War II newspaper heist and writing about tech for Sift Science.

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