#356 - BT Hayes on EXPECTATIONS

High school creative writing teacher and first-time author BT Hayes chats with Trey Elling about EXPECTATIONS. Topics include:

• The feeling of being published for the first time (0:35)
• The basis of Expectations (1:32)
• A timeline for the book (2:10)
• Enjoying the research (3:28)
• Picking up teenage dialogue thru his day job (5:33)
• His fears for his own daughter manifesting in the book (7:25)
• Have his kids read the book? (9:07)
• A nervousness in sharing a morbid piece of work (9:24)
• Why the title is "Expectations" (11:13)
• Playing with preconceived notions (11:50)
• A lesson from writing his first novel (14:16)