Eyes on Indie | How to Write in First Person and Why | Three Examples from Indie Presses @eyesonindie | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Exploring three novels (from indie presses) told by female first person narrators. How are each of these authors using first person narrators, and why?

0:00 - Intro
2:37 - Summary of Each Book
8:15 - General Thoughts on First Person Narration
16:35 - Similarities Among All Three Narrators
21:23 - The Adventures of China Iron
27:04 - Three Summers
34:31 - New Animal
42:29 - Conclusion

Books mentioned:
The Adventures of China Iron (Charco Press)
by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from the Spanish by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre
charcopress.com/bookstore/adventures-of-china-iron

Three Summers (NYRB)
by Margarita Liberaki, translated from the Greek by Karen Van Dyck
nyrb.com/products/three-summers?variant=9493832204340

New Animal (Two Dollar Radio)
by Ella Baxter
twodollarradio.com/products/new-animal

Steering the Craft
by Ursula K. Le Guin
bookshop.org/books/steering-the-craft-a-twenty-first-century-guide-to-sailing-the-sea-of-story/9780544611610

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition)
by Janet Burroway, Ned Stuckey-French, Elizabeth Stuckey-French

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