and the strong narrative voice of lorena hickok is to my mind, the very best thing that suggests thatit has another form other than the novel. it's a great book and i wish you great success with it and everything else, and it's a pleasure to get to see you. - thank you. thank you, amy bloom. thank you so much. take care. - all right, thanks, thanks. (applauding) - [male announcer] we love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q and a's with our audience and guests, and an archive of past episodes. - you have to enter characters from the inside, not from the outside. and that's one of the real things that's difficult, i think, often for historians, which is how do you feel what this character felt without, you're not looking at them. so when they always say in writing, show, don't tell, what they mean is, make it happen right in front of the reader. don't just describe it. - [female announcer] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy, and b