291: How to Make Your Story Truly Unique - Interview with Robert Dugoni

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hey there word nerds!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Robert Dugoni.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Internationally Best-Selling Author of 17 novels in The Tracy Crosswhite police detective series set in Seattle, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and the Charles Jenkins espionage series.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He is also the author of several standalone novels including</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Eighth Sister</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, both #1 Amazon kindle downloads, as well as</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The 7th Canon</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Cyanide Canary</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Washington Post</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">best book of the year. Several novels have been optioned for television series. Robert is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for fiction and many other awards. We’ll be talking about his book</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Cold Trail</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">which is out now.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Robert and I discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The power of dedicated, daily work</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Revisiting an old crime in a new book</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The particular appeal of a small town as a mystery sett