S2E4 🐎 Horse Girl Author 📚Carrie Seim 👧

Daily Detour with Dan Roberts

Good News: Haley Sue Crandall loves horses. As soon as she saw her first horse, she wanted to ride. But Haley was born with a heart defect and her dreams wouldn't come true--until now.
Guest: Carrie Seim is the creator of the best-selling Audible series: The Flying Flamingo Sisters, hailed by The New York Times as a Best Audiobook for Road Trips with Kids. Her new middle-grade novel from Penguin is HORSE GIRL, described as “Mean Girls meets Black Beauty.”

Carrie served as a staff writer for several Nickelodeon comedy variety shows.

She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, The New York Post, Condé Nast Traveler and NPR.

Carrie is also an actress, an alum of the world-famous Groundlings comedy troupe, appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, and was invited to audition for SNL.

Parody Commercial: The Mare Club for Men. Clyde Clydesdale, president of the Mare Club for Men has a solution for balding men: horse hair!
Plus: Dan and his wife have their first official date-night since everything shut down because of the pandemic. Dan explains Clubhouse, does an Open Mic in the app and makes lame excuses for why this week's episode is late. He does apologize.
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1. S2E4 🐎 Horse Girl Author 📚Carrie Seim 👧 (00:00:00)

2. Excuses (00:00:44)

3. Good News-Girl with Heart Defects Gets Her Wish (00:02:33)

4. Carrie Seim Interview, Part 1 (00:04:07)

5. What's the Deal with Girls and Horses? (00:05:22)

6. A Classic Horse Story (00:07:07)

7. The Inspiration for Horse Girl (00:09:13)

8. About the Book (00:12:10)

9. A Good Message for Tweens (00:15:04)

10. An Embarrassment of Compliments (00:16:09)

11. The Lois Lane Times (00:20:24)

12. Sibling Rivalry (00:22:15)

13. Parody Ad-The Mare Club for Men (00:24:57)

14. Carrie Seim Interview, Part 2 (00:26:27)

15. Outsourcing Love (00:26:32)

16. Snagging an Interview with Betty White (00:29:45)

17. Invited to Audition for SNL (00:31:16)

18. Ad-Dan's New Nina Noir Notebooks on Amazon (00:39:16)

19. Carrie Seim Interview, Part 3 (00:41:08)

20. Improve Your Writing with Improv (00:41:51)

21. The Flying Flamingo Sisters (00:42:55)

22. Plot vs Characters (00:47:29)

23. The More You Read, The Better You Write (00:49:43)

24. Finding a Publisher (00:51:16)

25. Self Publishing (00:53:34)

26. Writing is Rewriting (00:54:18)

27. Writing for TV (00:55:01)

28. Put Your Work Out There! (00:55:59)

29. Date Night (00:59:19)

30. Clubhouse Explained (01:00:54)

31. Next Week-Conquering Our Fears (01:02:39)