How Award-Winning Sci-Fi Author Sarah Pinsker Writes

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

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Award-winning short story writer and novelist, Sarah Pinsker, talked to me about neural implants, meeting Ursula Le Guin, and her latest, We Are Satellites.

Sarah Pinsker is the 2019 Nebula Award winner for Best Novel for A Song For a New Day. The lauded and eerily prescient novel was "...Set in our near-future world following a virus and violent attacks that led people to limit almost all interaction to the virtual space." Sound familiar?

Her latest is We Are Satellites was named One of Buzzfeed’s Best Science Fiction Books of Spring 2021 and described as "...a fascinating novel that explores how technologies can transform family dynamics.”

Sarah’s also a multi-hyphenate singer/songwriter whose Nebula and Sturgeon award-winning short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, as well as numerous other magazines, best-of anthologies, and been translated into multiple languages.

Stay tuned after the interview for a sample of the We Are Satellites audiobook, excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio, read by Bernadette Dunne.

Stay calm and write on ...

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If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please "Follow" us to automatically see new interviews. In this file Sarah Pinsker and I discussed:

• The heartache and thrill of getting rejection letters at age 13
• Her pandemic productivity blues
• Why she buys every indie, small press, sci-fi collection
• And how taking a walk can coax the words to come

Show Notes:

• SarahPinsker.com
• We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker [Amazon]
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker [Amazon]
• Sarah Pinsker Twitter
• Kelton Reid on Twitter

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