When Charlie Jane Anders was nonetheless right here at io9—she co-founded the positioning with Annalee Newitz again in 2008—she wrote a number of in style posts providing recommendation and inspiration to each aspiring and veteran authors of sci-fi and fantasy. Those posts gained much more worth after she herself grew to become a best-selling fiction creator, due to critically acclaimed titles like Victories Greater Than Death, All the Birds within the Sky, and The City within the Middle of the Night.

Her newest launch, nevertheless, is a nonfiction guide in an analogous vein to these io9 posts, and the well timed title actually says all of it: Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories. It’s described as being “full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency … the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times.” Today, io9 has an unique excerpt from the audiobook, which Anders narrated herself. It comes from chapter two of Never Say You Can’t Survive and digs deep into the dreaded (however deeply relatable) feeling of “imposter syndrome,” why you shouldn’t let it get you down, and different matters. Take a hear!

[MacmillanAudio · Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders, audiobook excerpt]

“I was super nervous about doing my own audiobook, but I ended up having a total blast,” Anders mentioned in a press release supplied to io9. “With the help of Kimberly Wetherell, Layla Mohamedi, and everyone at Women’s Audio Mission, I felt super comfortable reading my own words out—and I found that I was really feeling those words in a whole new way. I’m proud of how this audiobook turned out: It’s me speaking to you directly, giving you all the advice and encouragement I’ve stored up throughout my career, and hopefully inspiring you to go out and build your own castles in the sky.”

Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories can be launched in all codecs on August 17; you may order a replica here.

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