A.C. Fuller

On Episode 16 of the WRITER 2.0 Podcast I speak with debut novelist Eliot Baker about:

• grunge music;
• the process of writing his debut novel, THE LAST ANCIENT, including his “functional schizophrenia”;
• the best meal he ever ate;
• why marketing books in person still matters;
• his worst fantasy football mistake;
• how a “total body literary orgasm” started his serious writing life;
• whether the Seahwaks will repeat.

Plus, on “Today in writing,” Agatha Christie’s famous disappearance. And a special Amuse Bouche Inspiration segment from Erika Mitchell: the origin story of Jim Butcher.

About our Guest:

Eliot Baker has a B.A. in World Literature from Pitzer College, a post-baccalaureate in premedical studies from Harvard Extension School, and an M.S. in Science Journalism from Boston University. As an evil research assistant at Harvard Medical School, Eliot kept young people awake for 86 hours in a sleep deprivation study and spun old people around in NASA-designed rocket chairs in a brain blood-flow study. He wrote for the Harvard Health Letters and reported for the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, garnering several community journalism awards. He currently teaches and runs a science editing business in Finland. His debut novel, THE LAST ANCIENT, was published by Champagne Books and was called “A multilayered, surprising and beautifully written novel of mythology, suspense and mystery” by Kirkus Reviews.

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