{"podcast":{"title":"The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience","slug":"the-writer-files-writing-productivity-creativity-and-neuroscience-467925","podcast_index_feed_id":467925,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG5286564987","website_url":"https://thepodglomerate.com/shows/the-writer-files/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/78444584-7c9b-11ec-acf5-f73d7c7d676c/image/868c5f60c27735027d2bc756aa190c52.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Kelton Reid","episode_count":509,"summary":"If you’re searching for a show that pulls back the curtain on the mystique of the writing life, look no further than The Writer Files. Hosts Kelton Reid and Milena Gonzalez study the habits, habitats, and brains of the biggest and brightest authors of our time. Tune in each week to learn from bestselling and acclaimed writers on how to keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block. Please follow The Writer Files wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a rating or review to help other writers find us.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T16:19:10.793901+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writer-files-writing-productivity-creativity-and-neuroscience-467925"},"episode":{"title":"How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Ruta Sepetys Writes: Part Two","slug":"how-1-ny-times-bestselling-author-ruta-sepetys-writes-part-two","published_at":"2026-05-22T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writer-files-writing-productivity-creativity-and-neuroscience-467925/how-1-ny-times-bestselling-author-ruta-sepetys-writes-part-two","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writer-files-writing-productivity-creativity-and-neuroscience-467925","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG3863654683.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG3863654683.mp3","summary":"#1 New York Times bestselling author, Ruta Sepetys, returns to speak with us about her 12 years of research, ragtime music, and the “fortune and facade” of 1920s Detroit in her adult historical fiction debut, A FORTUNE OF SAND. Ruta Sepetys is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages. Her acclaimed “crossover” YA literature includes the Carnegie Medal-winning Salt to the Sea. Her latest, A Fortune of Sand (available May 26th), is described as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby and Amor Towles’ Rules Of Civility meets Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums. The novel follows a wealthy, eccentric family in Detroit’s booming automobile industry and includes a plot twist around stolen jewels. A Booklist starred review called the book, “A richly detailed portrait of the glittering city and [Detroit’s] dark underbelly. . . . This will appeal to fans of Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety and Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach.” Ruta’s books have won or been shortlisted for more than 50 book prizes, and are currently in development for film and television. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Ruta Sepetys, Milena, and I discussed: Why she still gets nervous before every book release Finding a writing structure to mimic the volatile energy of The Roaring ‘20s Why she filed FOIA requests and worked with former FBI agents to interpret her research How she co-authored a YA historical mystery with Steve Sheinkin Why she prefers the…","meta_description":"#1 New York Times bestselling author, Ruta Sepetys, returns to speak with us about her 12 years of research, ragtime music, and the “fortune and facade” o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2913,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-writer-files-writing-productivity-creativity-and-neuroscience-467925/episodes/how-1-ny-times-bestselling-author-ruta-sepetys-writes-part-two/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writer-files-writing-productivity-creativity-and-neuroscience-467925/how-1-ny-times-bestselling-author-ruta-sepetys-writes-part-two.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}