The Spy with the Wooden Leg
was a woman worthy of a podcast...
However, the first episode of Angry Dead Women does not feature the extraordinary Virginia Hall, who is the above mentioned person in this month’s title. Yet having a wooden leg is how Virginia is remembered. It perfectly illustrates how women tend to be classified in history which will be a subject for another newsletter.
But first! A bit of actual news….
Last night, on the Booklife Prize site, Well Dressed Lies was bestowed with the following sticker:
By the time you open this, the quarterfinals may have been as far as my little book goes, but it’s a huge milestone for me, and it’s always gratifying to receive a nod from folks in the biz.
Now, back to my podcast!
My pilot episode has only one angry dead woman, that being Cheerio Meredith, who was my grandmother. Cheerio, by all accounts, was such a go-getter, that she couldn’t have wasted much time being angry. Here is a photo of the two of us, taken more than 60 years apart, and somehow, it feels as though we’re connected by more than the color of our shirts.
In addition to a gentleman named Sam Costanzo who will be my co-host, the pilot also features an interview with a woman named Adria Firestone. Adria is an extraordinary coach and motivational speaker. When I finished my debut novel, I needed help getting over a crippling fear of speaking on camera. She helped me with that and other persnickety hang ups, too numerous to mention. I invite you to check her out. Working with Adria has the potential to be life changing. I kid you not.
Originally, I’d hoped to send this out via Sub stack’s podcast dashboard, but readers, I just can’t figure it out… and god knows, all of this is a process.
So, without further ado, I give you… Angry Dead Women, the pilot podcast.
I loved everything about this post. It's more than a podcast and better than a video.