Mixing Genres and Trusting Your Gut with Liz Bell Young

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode of The Writing Room, Bob and Kim sit down with writer and artist Liz Bell Young to talk about her book "Let There Be Havens" and the creative process behind it. Liz discusses how she blends memoir, photography, and practical wisdom in her work—despite being told her voice was “too quiet” for publishing. Listen in as they explore what it means to trust your creative instincts, push past industry expectations, and write the book that’s truly on your heart. Connect with Liz: instagram.com/lizbellyoung Let There Be Havens: https://a.co/d/8rr6Eok Connect with Bob: instagram.com/bobgoff Connect with Kim: instagram.com/kimberly.stuart.writes --- Learn more about Writing Coaching with Bob and Kim: bobgoff.com/writing-coaching Come join Bob and Kim at the Oaks for a Writer’s Workshop. Wherever you are in the writing process they are ready to help you figure out your next steps! Visit bobgoff.com/events to learn more.

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0:00.0	Access More.
0:08.3	Hey, everybody. It's Bob and Kim here today with the writing room. And we've got Liz
0:15.4	Abel Young on with us today. Kim, what if you introduce Liz? And then we want to hear from Liz herself.
0:24.1	Well, I'm so excited to introduce Liz because I'm mildly obsessed with Liz. She is a new friend of
0:29.6	mine the last couple of years and wrote this beautiful, beautiful book that I hope all of you
0:34.1	check out. We'll talk about it in just a second. But Liz, for those of us who are new to you and new to your work, why don't you tell us a little
0:42.4	bit about where you are, who you are?
0:44.6	What are your days like these days?
0:46.6	Oh, sure.
0:47.6	Well, right now there is a chainsaw out my window.
0:50.3	Oh.
0:50.8	Sounds like a horror story, but someone decided to just chop down a tree.
0:53.8	So I can't hear it. Okay. You have good audio. Um, yeah, I just
0:58.8	finished a book called Let Their Behavins. Uh, it came out in August. And so right now, my days look like,
1:08.1	um, just kind of managing that and tried to steward it well. This is the first
1:12.5	book that I actually did with a publisher. I've self-published before. And so, you know, you just want to
1:19.7	really, yeah, like I said, steward it well and just think about the way it's touching people
1:26.9	or how you want to sort of get it into people's hands,
1:30.1	how you don't want to get it into people's hands.
1:32.2	You know, I'm not a laser light show kind of person, much quieter.
1:36.5	And so it's just been interesting to think about like in the vein of my personality and in the style of this book,
1:44.2	like what does marketing and promotion actually look like?
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