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Episodes: 431


 Mar 24, 2022

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Entertaining, actionable advice on craft, productivity and creativity for writers and journalists in all genres, with hosts Jessica Lahey, KJ Dell'Antonia and Sarina Bowen.

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Episode Date
Daring to Kickstarter with Rachael Herron
Apr 19, 2024
Episode: 395 Who Owns an Idea?
Apr 12, 2024
Flashback Friday: Writing While #Broken
Mar 29, 2024
Things Jess Learned This Month, Ep. 394
Mar 22, 2024
I want to sell books. But I'm also writing what I want to write. Episode 393 with Jo Piazza
Mar 15, 2024
How to Be a Good Literary Citizen: Volunteer at a Writing Conference
Mar 08, 2024
Flashback Friday: How Do You Write a Non-Fiction Book in less than a Year?
Mar 01, 2024
Why You Should Take a Plot-walk
Feb 23, 2024
Coaching call with author, educator & speaker Katie Kinder
Feb 16, 2024
How to Create a Substack that Delivers (for you and your readers) Episode 389 with Dan Blank
Feb 09, 2024
What’s on the Cutting Room Floor?
Feb 02, 2024
Ep 387: The Art of Manifesting for Tired and Skeptical Authors
Jan 26, 2024
Episode 386: Under the Weather Productivity
Jan 19, 2024
Ep 385: What I Think About When I Think About Job Offers
Jan 12, 2024
Unapologetically Re-creating our Abundant Zone of Genius
Dec 29, 2023
Flashback Friday: Become a #BetterStrongerFaster Writer with Becca Syme
Dec 22, 2023
Flashback Friday: Episode 293, how to build a literary life with Zibby Owens.
Nov 24, 2023
When Inner Dialogue Isn't "Telling" and When It Is in Memoir and Fiction
Nov 17, 2023
How to Restart Your Work after an Unplanned Pause
Nov 10, 2023
How Sarina's Reading Journal Makes Her a Better Novelist: Episode 382
Oct 27, 2023
How to Find the Right Speaking Agent: Ep 381
Oct 20, 2023
National Novel Planning Month (that should be a thing)
Oct 13, 2023
A Million Little Pieces that can Make or Break a Speaking Engagement: Episode 379
Oct 06, 2023
Six Seasons in One Episode: Cookbooks as Memoir with Gesine Bullock-Prado, Ep 378
Sep 29, 2023
Writing for Tweendom: Jamie Sumner on writing difficult topics and the glory of middle grade fiction
Sep 22, 2023
Flinging a Fall Book out into the world
Sep 15, 2023
Reinvention Marketing: Selling Your Book for Years After Pub Day
Sep 08, 2023
From Idea to Execution: Building a Book
Sep 01, 2023
Never Carved in Stone: Letting Ideas Evolve
Aug 25, 2023
Ideas and Nonfiction: Your Book Idea Contains Multitudes
Aug 18, 2023
When Good Ideas Go Bad (the most common mistakes writers make)
Aug 11, 2023
Memoirs for the Marketplace: A Blueprint for Success
Aug 04, 2023
You Are the Protagonist (memoirs need ideas too) with Rachael Herron
Jul 28, 2023
How to Decide if Your Book Idea is Solid (or Solid Enough)
Jul 21, 2023
The Airport Game (or, how to come up with 8 ideas on a 3 hour long flight)
Jul 14, 2023
Welcome to the Idea Factory (Good Writing Comes Last, Part 2)
Jul 07, 2023
How to Start a Novel (and keep going) Episode 365
Jul 01, 2023
Summer Reading for Writers (plus a #FlashbackFriday: Episode 269)
Jun 23, 2023
Satire: writing just below "over-the-top" with Jane Roper Episode 364
Jun 16, 2023
How to Hate Your Work and Also Sell It-- at the same time. Episode 363
Jun 09, 2023
Talking Fat Talk and Substack Success: Episode 362 with Virginia Sole-Smith
Jun 02, 2023
Flashback Friday: Episode 288 with Joni Cole
May 26, 2023
Scrivener Tips: It's only taken Jess 361 episodes to deliver on her promise
May 19, 2023
Summoning My Accountability Buddies: Because Sometimes Writers Need Deadlines, ep 360
May 12, 2023
Dealing with Goal Fatigue What to Do When the Goals Aren't Getting You Anywhere, Ep. 359
May 05, 2023
Flashback Friday: Jodi Kantor Chases the Truth
Apr 28, 2023
Intoxication for Inspiration: Do drugs and alcohol unleash the muses? Episode 358
Apr 21, 2023
The Anxious Writer: Turning fears into superpowers. Episode 357
Apr 14, 2023
Writerly Tech: the hardware, the software and the why. Episode 356
Apr 07, 2023
In My Expert Opinion: Pitching, Prepping, and Nailing Interviews for TV and Radio
Mar 31, 2023
Good Writing Comes Last: the form and function of a solid book outline, episode 354
Mar 24, 2023
Sensitivity Reader Reboot: looking your topic from all the angles, with Jordan Shapiro and Jazz
Mar 17, 2023
Unraveling Nonfiction Research and Writing: Episode 353 with Peggy Orenstein
Mar 10, 2023
How to Write a Novel in Three Months, Sarina-Style (Episode 352)
Mar 03, 2023
A Workbook for Your Story: Episode 351 with Adrienne Young and Isabel Ibañez
Feb 24, 2023
Writing Three Books Without Typing a Word: Episode 350 with Leslie Hooton
Feb 17, 2023
How to Write (More than just) Erotica: Episode 349 with Rachel Kramer Bussel
Feb 10, 2023
Are You Ready to Pitch? The Answer is in Your Query. Episode 348 with Julie Artz
Feb 03, 2023
Start More than You Can Finish: Redefining failure with Becky Blades in Episode 347
Jan 27, 2023
A Thousand Miles to a First Novel: Episode 346 with Kristen Mei Chase
Jan 20, 2023
Flashback Friday -- Episode 71: Building relationships with booksellers with Mary Laura Philpott
Jan 13, 2023
When it comes to goals, boring is good. Episode 345: Goals--or not--for 2023
Jan 06, 2023
2022 in the Rear View Mirror: Episode 344
Dec 30, 2022
#NaNoNowWhat? Bonus Episode: First Steps after First Drafts
Dec 27, 2022
Flashback Friday -- Episode 251 How to give your fun read a solid, poke-in-the-gut point with Anna North
Dec 23, 2022
Friends Don't Let Friends Write Books Without Hooks. Episode 343
Dec 16, 2022
Bonus Episode: Speaking Agencies
Dec 13, 2022
It Turns Out What I Really Want to Write About is... Episode 342, from memoir to marketable, with Emily Grosvenor
Dec 09, 2022
Talking TikTok (and Reels too): Episode 341 on Video content--the Why, the How To, and is it Worth the Time Suck?
Dec 02, 2022
#WriterGifts!
Dec 01, 2022
How to Tell Someone Else's Story: Episode 340 with Allison Gilbert
Nov 25, 2022
Lit Mags, Grants and Residencies: a best-we-can how-to for an always changing but more approachable than we imagine world. Episode 339 with Patrice Gopo
Nov 18, 2022
The 30-Day Revision: Episode 338 How KJ Revised a Novel in 30 Days/189 Hours and approximately 72 Chocolate-Covered Peeps
Nov 11, 2022
Publishing's Secret Side-Door: Episode 337 Writing Object Lessons and Books-for-series with Maria Teresa Hart
Nov 04, 2022
Why You Should Do NaNoWriMo (and how to make the most of it) 336
Oct 28, 2022
How Butter Makes Everything (Including Books) Better: Writing Can't-Stop-Won't-Stop Fiction with Theodora Taylor (Flashback Friday)
Oct 21, 2022
How to Work with Small Presses and Literary Magazines—Episode 335 with Terena Bell
Oct 14, 2022
How Productive Writers get it done (by listening Flashback Friday with Laura Vanderkam) (Replay of Episode 116)
Oct 07, 2022
Using tropes and genres like a pro: Ep 334 with Alexis Hall
Sep 30, 2022
Which Kind of Writer Are You? Flashback Friday with Gretchen Rubin (Replay Episode 107)
Sep 23, 2022
Very Serious About Fun Reads Ep 333 with Emily Henry
Sep 16, 2022
How to Plan for Fall When You Don't EVEN Know... Episode 332
Sep 09, 2022
Bonus BP10: How to set your own goals, and meet them.
Sep 05, 2022
How to Go From Planning a Book to Writing One: Blueprint for a Book Step 10
Sep 02, 2022
Bonus BP9: How to Keep Going When All You See Are the Problems
Aug 29, 2022
But Does this Book Work? Blueprint for a Book Step 9
Aug 26, 2022
Bonus BP8: Easier Outlining for the Loquacious and the Reluctant
Aug 22, 2022
One Outline to Rule Them All (Even if You Hate Outlining): Blueprint for a Book Step 8
Aug 19, 2022
Bonus BP7: Finding Your Drivers
Aug 15, 2022
How to Drive that Narrative Forward: Blueprint for a Book Step 7
Aug 12, 2022
Bonus BP6: TOCs, Chapter Headings, POV---It's all Structure.
Aug 08, 2022
What's the Structure of Your Narrative? Blueprint for a Book Step 6
Aug 05, 2022
Bonus BPB 5: The Change is the Theme
Aug 01, 2022
There Must Be Change: Blueprint for a Book Step 5
Jul 29, 2022
Bonus BPB 4: Jacket Copy Cheats and Hacks
Jul 25, 2022
Your Jacket Copy is Your Promise to the Reader: Blueprint for a Book Step 4
Jul 22, 2022
Bonus BPB 3: Write What You Want--to Be Read.
Jul 18, 2022
Who Will Read My Book? Know Your Market: Blueprint for a Book Step 3
Jul 15, 2022
Bonus BPB 2: What's this about--and how knowing the answer makes everything else easier.
Jul 11, 2022
323 What's Your Point? Blueprint for a Book Step 2
Jul 08, 2022
BPB Bonus 1: What's YOUR Why?
Jul 04, 2022
322 Find Your Why: Blueprint for a Book Step 1
Jul 01, 2022
321 What Do You Want to Achieve this Year--and are you half-way there?
Jun 24, 2022
Blueprint for a Book Extravaganza: How to plan a book in 10 episodes
Jun 20, 2022
320: How to Create Your Own Market
Jun 17, 2022
Write Now with Sarah Rhea Werner
Jun 14, 2022
But Everything is so SHINY: Episode 319, Coaching journalist Alison Myers on restarting a writing career.
Jun 10, 2022
Yes You Can Write In More Than One Genre. Here's how: Episode 318 flips the shelves.
Jun 03, 2022
How Writing Middle Grade is Different, and How It's Not: Episode 317 with Jamie Sumner
May 27, 2022
Living with Writer Envy. Episode 316: We wanted to call this conquering it but we can't.
May 20, 2022
When Your Agent Doesn't Like Your Idea as Much as You Do: Episode 315 with Kristen Green
May 13, 2022
How to Write a Cozy Mystery (the rules are changing): Episode 314 with Mia Manansala
May 06, 2022
One Man's Quest to Find the Next Big Book Idea: Episode 313 with A.J. Jacobs
Apr 29, 2022
Essays that start light, then hit hard: Episode 312 with Mary Laura Philpott
Apr 22, 2022
Where Should Your Energy Go NOW? Episode 311--everything evolves with Jess and KJ
Apr 15, 2022
Jodi Kantor Chases the Truth: Episode 310 is a Primer on Investigative Journalism
Apr 08, 2022
Nonfiction Masterclass: Combining Narrative Structure, Lived Experience and Geopolitics in Episode 309 with Scott Carney and Jason Miklian.
Apr 01, 2022
How to Love Writing What You Can Sell: Episode 308 with Seressia Glass
Mar 25, 2022
How to Be on Bookstagram Episode 307 with #bookmarkedbya
Mar 18, 2022
Does Your Author Website Answer the Right Questions? Episode 306 with Anne Le Tissier
Mar 11, 2022
But what if my old boss is pissed? Episode 305: Workplace Memoir with Cate Doty
Mar 04, 2022
Sometimes You Can't Go with the Flow: Hacking Writing Energies in Episode 304 with Jess and KJ
Feb 25, 2022
Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Episode 303 with Sarina, Jess and KJ
Feb 18, 2022
Writer De-Snobbification: Episode 302 with Katherine Center
Feb 11, 2022
Do Morning Pages Work? Episode 301: Is this, or is it not, the Artist's Way?
Feb 04, 2022
BONUS: Listen to The Book Dreams Podcast with Guest Kathryn Schulz
Feb 02, 2022
ALWAYS WIPS Episode 300--Podcast #Goals, Translating Earnings, Talking $$ and Craft and Interview Skillz
Jan 28, 2022
How to Sell Any Book to Any Publisher-- Episode 299: More Info Than You Ever Thought Possible with Multi-genre author and teacher extraordinaire Sue Shapiro
Jan 21, 2022
How to Travel for Research (even before you sell the book)--Episode 298 with Sarah Stewart Taylor
Jan 14, 2022
How to Build a Platform in a Zillion (Not) Easy Steps: Episode 297, A coaching call with Alison Zak
Jan 07, 2022
[announcer yells] GOALS: Episode 296
Dec 31, 2021
Heck of a Year: Episode 295 is 2021 in review
Dec 24, 2021
Butter Up Your Writing: Episode 294 Using Universal Fantasy to Write Better and Sell More with Theodora Taylor
Dec 17, 2021
How to Build a Literary Life: Episode 293 with Zibby Owens
Dec 10, 2021
A Busload of Books: Illustrator Robbi Behr and Writer Matthew Swanson Take Their Work and Their Family on the Road in Episode 292.
Dec 03, 2021
How Do You Write a Non-Fiction Book in less than a Year? Episode 291: Coaching Call with Emily Edlynn
Nov 26, 2021
What Not to Do, Self-Pub Edition Episode 290 with Cate Frazier-Neely
Nov 19, 2021
Why Can't I Finish My Novel? Episode 289: A Coaching Call with Ophir Lehavy
Nov 12, 2021
Non-Toxic Feedback: Building workshops and writing groups. Episode 288 with Joni Cole
Nov 05, 2021
I Have This Idea...Structuring Non-fiction and Memoir: Episode 287 Coaching Call with Emily Henderson
Oct 29, 2021
Breaking into Television Writing: Episode 286 with Will Morey
Oct 22, 2021
When Agents Ask You to "Revise and Resubmit": Episode 285 with Mindy Carlson
Oct 15, 2021
When Inner Dialogue Isn't "Telling" and When It Is in Memoir and Fiction: Episode 284 with Jess, KJ and Sarina
Oct 08, 2021
Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Episode 283: Turning situations into books with Heather Chavez
Oct 01, 2021
Episode 282: 40 Years of Procrastination with Joy Imboden Overstreet
Sep 24, 2021
Episode 281: Writing with the Door Open (Stephen King May Be Wrong)
Sep 17, 2021
Episode 280: Book Launching Fun with Jess
Sep 10, 2021
Episode 279: Collaborating, Revising and Proposing--What We Did On Our Summer Vacations
Sep 03, 2021
Episode 278: Editing
Aug 27, 2021
Episode 277: Writer Comfort Reads
Aug 20, 2021
Episode 276: When You Don't Know Why You're Doing This
Aug 13, 2021
Episode 275: Writing While White (or otherwise part of the historically dominant paradigm)
Aug 06, 2021
Episode 274: Getting Published
Jul 30, 2021
Episode 273: #Writing Books for When You're Stuck
Jul 23, 2021
Episode 272: Sometimes Writers Need to Up Our Game
Jul 16, 2021
Episode 271: #Productivity: Write More Better Faster Yes Please
Jul 09, 2021
Episode 270: #Plotting Your Heart (and Book) Out
Jul 02, 2021
Episode 269: Finding #Inspiration on the Writer's Bookshelf
Jun 25, 2021
Episode 268 #SummerReading: Whose List Looks Like Your List?
Jun 18, 2021
Episode 267 #Summer Writing Plans
Jun 11, 2021
Episode 266 #Sensitivity Readers with Jordan Shapiro and Jazz
Jun 04, 2021
Episode 265 Everybody Suffers, Not Everybody Can #Write About it with Stacy Kim
May 28, 2021
Episode 264 Being #Edited (is a Very Good Thing)
May 21, 2021
Episode 263: No, Really, It's #Fiction: Writing novels that reflect (but differ dramatically from) your life with Emma Gannon
May 14, 2021
Episode 262: #Breaking into Food Writing and Redefining Success with Reem Kassis
May 07, 2021
Episode 261 Really #Funny, Real and Funny: Rom-Coms, plotting and finding characters with Mhairi McFarlane
Apr 30, 2021
Episode 260 #Writing Without Knowing Where You're Going with Kristin Van Ogtrop
Apr 23, 2021
Episode 259: More Q, More A: Organizing research, handling would-be writer friends, finding great editors and writing classes and the kicker: How Do You Become Liz Gilbert?
Apr 16, 2021
Episode 258 Writing While #Broken: Talking Depression, Anxiety and Writer's Block with Jenny Lawson
Apr 09, 2021
Episode 257 Become a #Better Faster Stronger Writer with Becca Syme
Apr 02, 2021
Episode 256 Your Q's, A'd: Stealing ideas, asking for blurbs and the elusive "platform"
Mar 26, 2021
Episode 255 The Power of Writing as Play with Nalini Singh
Mar 19, 2021
Episode 254 How to Prep a NonFiction Launch the Jess Way
Mar 12, 2021
Ep 253 From Breakout Article to Book: Writing about #Nothing and Everything with Olga Mecking
Mar 05, 2021
Episode 252 How to Write a Post-Covid Romance with Alisha Rai
Feb 26, 2021
Episode 251 How to give your fun read a solid, poke-in-the-gut point with Anna North
Feb 19, 2021
Episode 250: Growing Thick Skin: Handling #Haters, Commenters and Bad Reviews
Feb 12, 2021
Episode 249: Turning Data into #Narrative with Ron Lieber
Feb 05, 2021
Episode 248 Mental #Chatter with Ethan Kross: Harnessing the voices in our heads for good
Jan 29, 2021
Episode 247: #Writing All Over the Map with Jacob Sager Weinstein
Jan 22, 2021
Episode 246: Historical #Fiction the Only Way I Know How with Beverly Jenkins
Jan 15, 2021
Episode 245: #Pitching with Passion with Lisa Levenstein
Jan 08, 2021
Episode 244: Setting Writer #Goals for 2021
Jan 01, 2021
Episode 243: #Fact-based Fiction and Fiction from Facts with Mark Olshaker
Dec 25, 2020
Episode 242 Finding All the Voices: Writing Reflective #Nonfiction with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Dec 18, 2020
Episode 241: Big #Booklaunch Day
Dec 11, 2020
Episode 240 #Editing for the Best Version of Your Vision with Tiffany Yates Martin
Dec 04, 2020
BONUS EPISODE--Shiny Thing Syndrome: KJ & Jennie Nash discuss career goals, side gigs and distractions
Nov 30, 2020
Episode 239 #Writer Gift Extravaganza
Nov 27, 2020
Episode 238 Turning #Romance on Its Head with Lyssa Kay Adams
Nov 20, 2020
Episode 237: #Reporting from the Economic Trenches with Lauren Sandler
Nov 13, 2020
Episode 236 #Shipping Your Creative Work with Seth Godin (Take Two)
Nov 06, 2020
Episode 235: Writer #Tech We Love
Oct 30, 2020
Episode 234: #Storybuilding with Jacob Wright from Dabble Writing Software
Oct 23, 2020
Episode 233: #TruthsAndMisdemeanors, Lacy Crawford on the gauntlet of legal & fact-checking
Oct 16, 2020
Episode 232 Smart, #Versatile and Writing all the Things with Morgan Jerkins
Oct 09, 2020
Minisode: When There's No Muse, Keep Going
Oct 05, 2020
Episode 231: #FindYourReaders with Dara Kurtz
Oct 02, 2020
Episode 230: So You Wanna Be a #Bookcoach with Jennie Nash
Sep 25, 2020
Episode 229 #Interviewing with NPR's Celeste Headlee
Sep 18, 2020
Episode 228 #Embedded with Jeff Selingo
Sep 11, 2020
Episode 227 The Joy of #Self-Promotion: promoting yourself and your work
Sep 04, 2020
Episode 226 Writing #ownvoices while respecting others, with Lauren Ho
Aug 28, 2020
Episode 225 Get #ComfortablewithWeird How visualization and imagery help writers connect with readers, with Julie Berry
Aug 21, 2020
Episode 224 From Mr. Rogers to #RealityTVJournalism with Andy Dehnart
Aug 14, 2020
Episode 223: #MythBusting: We take a bunch of myths about writing and tear them all up and throw them away
Aug 07, 2020
Episode 222 #HomagetoJane: Talking Jane Austen with Sonali Dev
Jul 31, 2020
Episode 221 #FeelingExposed in Memoir and Fiction
Jul 24, 2020
Episode 220 #ComedicMemoir with Kari Lizer
Jul 17, 2020
Episode 219 Find Your Character's #WishSong with Susan Wiggs
Jul 10, 2020
Episode 218 The #Indie-TraditionalTradeoff
Jul 03, 2020
Episode 217 #HowtoGetOnThatPodcast with Lauren Passell
Jun 26, 2020
Episode 216 #TheBiggestBluff with Maria Konnikova
Jun 19, 2020
Episode 215: #TheSocialBookLaunch
Jun 12, 2020
Bonus Mini-sode: Finding Diverse Sources
Jun 08, 2020
Episode 214 Learning to Be #GenreFlexible with Catherine Newman
Jun 05, 2020
Episode 213 Book Launching Fun with #GoodreadsAmazonBookBub
May 29, 2020
Episode 212: Don't Just Say #TheBookWasBetter
May 22, 2020
Episode 211 #WriterGoals, Pandemic Version
May 15, 2020
Minisode: Don't Make the Same Mistakes Twice
May 11, 2020
Episode 210 #DontOverthinkIt
May 08, 2020
Episode 209 #StartYourWriterThing
May 01, 2020
Episode 208 How to Blend a #CozyThriller
Apr 24, 2020
Episode 207 #ProfessionallyMarried—for life
Apr 17, 2020
Episode 206 #YouCanDoIt (even now)
Apr 10, 2020
Episode 205 How to Create #MarketingMojo
Apr 03, 2020
Episode 204 #HowtoGetPastWritersBlock(slowly)
Mar 27, 2020
Episode 203 #HowtoWorkAnyway
Mar 20, 2020
Episode 202 #WebsiteRevampHowto
Mar 13, 2020
Episode 201: #Creatinga(Fictional)DysfunctionalFamily
Mar 06, 2020
Episode 200 #ShouldYouStartaPodcast
Feb 28, 2020
Episode 199 #HowtoLovePromotingYourWork
Feb 21, 2020
Episode 198 #RoomforTwoPrincesses
Feb 14, 2020
Episode 197 #HowtoWinatPR
Feb 07, 2020
196 #WhereDoestheTimeGo
Jan 31, 2020
Episode 195: #FromPeopletoSciAmerican
Jan 24, 2020
Episode 194: #PutAPriceOnIt
Jan 17, 2020
Episode 193: #WriterDreamsComeTrue
Jan 10, 2020
192 #HowtoBeaBookCoach
Jan 03, 2020
Episode 191 #2020Goals
Dec 27, 2019
Episode 190: #DeclaringGoalsMet*
Dec 20, 2019
Episode 189: #WhatWritersWant(thatmoneycanbuy)
Dec 13, 2019
Episode 188 #HowtoJudgeaBook(byits)Cover
Dec 06, 2019
Episode 187 #TheThankYouProjectProject
Nov 29, 2019
186 #TheJoyofHolidayRomCom
Nov 22, 2019
Episode 185: #AudioExplosion
Nov 15, 2019
Episode 184 #BeforeYouStartthatNonFictionProject
Nov 08, 2019
Episode 183: #FacebookforWriters
Nov 01, 2019
Episode 182 #WriteFlailRepeat
Oct 24, 2019
Episode 181 #NaWhateverWriMo
Oct 18, 2019
Episode 180 #CharacterEnneagramRabbitHole
Oct 11, 2019
Episode 179 #ShouldWantCanAmWriting
Oct 05, 2019
Episode 178 #WriteFaster
Sep 27, 2019
Episode 177 #AudioWriter
Sep 20, 2019
Episode 176 #FallProductivity
Sep 13, 2019
Episode 175 #HowtoUseaBurnChart
Sep 06, 2019
Episode 174: #WhenIt'sReallyHard
Aug 30, 2019
Episode 173, #LiteraryMagsandPopularAcademics
Aug 23, 2019
172: #BucketGoals
Aug 16, 2019
171: #WritingWithandAboutFaith
Aug 09, 2019
170: #YourFreelanceBusiness
Aug 02, 2019
169: #SummerReading
Jul 26, 2019
168: #LuckFavorsTheBold
Jul 19, 2019
167: #ChangeAndRearrange
Jul 12, 2019
166: #SummerWriting
Jul 05, 2019
165: #Twitter#@*!Storm
Jun 28, 2019
164: #WhoIsThisHelping
Jun 21, 2019
163: #BookTourReality
Jun 14, 2019
162: #HalfwaytoGoal
Jun 07, 2019
161: #WritingAtMyNightmare
May 31, 2019
160: #10MonthsfromStarttoDeadline
May 24, 2019
159: #StoryGenius
May 17, 2019
158: #WhyStickers
May 10, 2019
157: #ExcitedAboutWords
May 03, 2019
156 #WhenFansPay
Apr 26, 2019
155: #GetUnstuck
Apr 19, 2019
154: #MathandDictationAreFun
Apr 12, 2019
153: #GrammarGirl
Apr 05, 2019
152: #ContinueHereforEmailLists
Mar 29, 2019
151: #StartHereforEmailLists
Mar 22, 2019
150: #NeverReady
Mar 15, 2019
149: #PlagarismVersusJustWrong
Mar 08, 2019
148: #GreenEyedMonster
Mar 01, 2019
147: #GoodNewsandHowIGotThere
Feb 22, 2019
146: #AnthologyWriting
Feb 15, 2019
145: #DethroneThePhone
Feb 08, 2019
144: #ReadingWhileWriting
Feb 01, 2019
143: #AlwaysBeHustling
Jan 25, 2019
142: #SixYearsOfWork
Jan 18, 2019
141: #ItsTrueSoWriteIt
Jan 11, 2019
140: #2019Goals
Jan 04, 2019
139: #GoalReview
Dec 28, 2018
138: #WhatsYourGenre
Dec 22, 2018
137: #SocialProofMatters
Dec 14, 2018
136: #GiftShow!
Dec 07, 2018
135: #SteppingBack
Nov 30, 2018
134: #WritingAroundFamily
Nov 23, 2018
133: #WorkingBackwards
Nov 16, 2018
132 #ThePitchCameFirst
Nov 09, 2018
131: #RelentlesslyHelpful
Nov 02, 2018
130: #HorseKick
Oct 26, 2018
129: #Don'tGetBuzzed
Oct 19, 2018
128: #PlanItOut
Oct 12, 2018
127: #AmBranding
Oct 05, 2018
126: #PubDay3
Sep 28, 2018
125: #FindingAnAgent
Sep 21, 2018
124: #NomDePlume
Sep 14, 2018
123: #ChasingTheAntelope
Sep 07, 2018
122: #PubDay2
Aug 31, 2018
121: #ABillionsTimesNo
Aug 24, 2018
120: #IsolationIsForWimps
Aug 18, 2018
119: #BestSellers
Aug 10, 2018
118: #BooksAboutWork
Aug 03, 2018
117: #BookLaunchTimeline
Jul 27, 2018
116: #YouHaveTime
Jul 20, 2018
115: #TellingStories
Jul 13, 2018
114: #AudioBooks
Jul 06, 2018
113: #DestinyThief
Jun 29, 2018
112: #KeepingOrganized
Jun 22, 2018
111: #TheHeadshot
Jun 15, 2018
110: #CockyGate
Jun 08, 2018
109: #SedarisSerendipity
Jun 01, 2018
108: #GoalReview
May 25, 2018
107: #FourTendencies
May 18, 2018
106: #FirstTimerMistakes
May 11, 2018
105: #ConferenceGoing
May 04, 2018
104: #TheFullProposal
Apr 27, 2018
103: #DeepWork
Apr 20, 2018
102: #HomelessPieces
Apr 13, 2018
101: #SerialWriting
Apr 06, 2018
100: #DrivingTwoCars
Mar 30, 2018
99: #ImposterSyndrome
Mar 23, 2018
98: #Checklists
Mar 16, 2018
97: #TheLongJourney
Mar 09, 2018
96: #GettingCoached
Mar 02, 2018
95: #PitchingandPromotion
Feb 23, 2018
94: #SelfPromotionForIntroverts
Feb 16, 2018
93: #BooksNotYogurt
Feb 09, 2018
92: #HowToBeABadass
Feb 02, 2018
91: #Co-WritinginHollywood
Jan 26, 2018
90: #NotJustStuntJournalism
Jan 19, 2018
89: #StructureIsGood
Jan 12, 2018
88: #OrganicStory
Jan 05, 2018
87: #ReadySetGoals3
Dec 29, 2017
86: #GoalReview
Dec 22, 2017
85: #BookCoach
Dec 15, 2017
84: #WritersGifts 2
Dec 08, 2017
83: #NaNoWriMoWrap
Dec 01, 2017
82: #ATouchofthePoet
Nov 24, 2017
81: #AcademicPress
Nov 17, 2017
80: #NaNoWriMo3
Nov 10, 2017
79: #NaNoWriMo2
Nov 03, 2017
78: #NaNonFiWriMo
Oct 27, 2017
77: #GhostWriting
Oct 20, 2017
76: #FaceTime
Oct 13, 2017
75: #NovelPreparations
Oct 06, 2017
74: #ListenerQuestions 2
Sep 29, 2017
73: #OpenYourMouth
Sep 22, 2017
72: #NaNoWriMoPrep
Sep 15, 2017
71: #YouAndYourBookstore
Sep 08, 2017
70: #Fresh Fall Starts
Sep 01, 2017
69: #FromAtoBook
Aug 25, 2017
68: #HireAPublicist
Aug 18, 2017
67: #MysteryWriting
Aug 11, 2017
66: #CrunchedForTime
Aug 04, 2017
65: #SummerWriting
Jul 28, 2017
64: #PubDay
Jul 21, 2017
63: #Priorities
Jul 14, 2017
62: #WhatIsADraft
Jul 07, 2017
61: #AcademicStuff
Jun 30, 2017
60:#CheckingIn
Jun 23, 2017
59: #BeginnersFiction
Jun 16, 2017
58: #ChangingSeasons
Jun 09, 2017
57: #WritingIsHard
Jun 01, 2017
56: #TravelWriting
May 26, 2017
55: #HumorWriting
May 19, 2017
54: #ListenerQuestions
May 15, 2017
53: #BookProposals
May 05, 2017
52: #WritingAdvice
Apr 28, 2017
51: #BeingAnonymous
Apr 21, 2017
50: #WriteMore
Apr 14, 2017
49: #BooksForWriters
Apr 07, 2017
48: #StickWithIt
Mar 31, 2017
47: #SpeakingCircuit 2
Mar 24, 2017
46: #GiveItARest
Mar 17, 2017
45: #FamilyMemoir
Mar 10, 2017
44: #GetTheFacts
Mar 03, 2017
43: #SpeakingCircuit
Feb 25, 2017
42: #ThinkLikeAPirate
Feb 17, 2017
41: #VoiceofAuthority
Feb 10, 2017
40: #GettingItDone (Write More)
Feb 03, 2017
39: #WriterTaxes
Jan 27, 2017
39: #WriterTaxes
Jan 27, 2017
38: #WriterFinances
Jan 20, 2017
37: #OrganizedWriter 2
Jan 13, 2017
36: #OrganizedWriter 1
Jan 06, 2017
35: #ReadySetGoals 2
Dec 29, 2016
34: #ReadySetGoals
Dec 23, 2016
33: #SnowDaysandHolidays
Dec 16, 2016
32: #WriterGifts, 'Tis the Season to Write
Dec 09, 2016
31: #WriteWhatYouKnow, Your Experience Is Valuable
Dec 02, 2016
30: #NosyFamilies, Talking About Your Work
Nov 25, 2016
29: #WhenToQuit, Get Your Butt Outta the Chair
Nov 18, 2016
28: #OpEd, Own Your Expertise
Nov 11, 2016
27: #WriterFriends
Nov 04, 2016
26: #UniTasking, Is that a Thing?
Oct 28, 2016
25: #ReadingTheComments, the Good the Bad and the Ugly
Oct 21, 2016
24: #AskAnAgent, A Sit-Down with Jenny Bent
Oct 14, 2016
23: #FirstWords, How to Start the Day
Oct 07, 2016
22: #OfficeWoes, Making Do with Little or No Office Space
Sep 30, 2016
21: #BuildingAnAudience (Pretty Much What it Sounds Like)
Sep 23, 2016
20: #AmBlogging, Should I Start a Blog?
Sep 15, 2016
19: #AgentSecrets, Finding and Getting an Agent
Sep 09, 2016
18: #WorkingMess, Harnessing the Energy of Spontaneity
Sep 02, 2016
17: #OwItHurts, Taking Care of the Body While Flexing the Mind
Aug 25, 2016
16: #FreshFallStart, Vacation Was Nice Now Back to Work
Aug 17, 2016
15: #BeforeTheBook, Things You Can Do to Ensure the Success of Your Work
Aug 11, 2016
14: #ItTakesTwo, How to Write with a Partner
Aug 03, 2016
13: #HowItsDone, A Step By Step for Self-Publishing
Jul 27, 2016
12: #MistakesWereMade, The Quest for Truth and Perfection
Jul 20, 2016
11: #AmDissecting, Adding Structure to Creativity
Jun 22, 2016
10: #WriteNow, Feed Your Writing, with Reading, Bouncy Balls and Silence
Jun 15, 2016
9: #ActuallyTypingWords, Stay in the Chair and Write Now!
Jun 08, 2016
8: #DeadofExposure, Should You Write for Free and Great Long Reads
Jun 01, 2016
7: #AmResearching, Keep Those Notes Organized, and Remember When...
May 20, 2016
6: #AmRecommending, Tech Tools (High and Low) and A Special Contest
May 13, 2016
5: #AmConferencing, Writing it Down and Making Connections
May 06, 2016
4: #AmInterviewing, The Art of the Interview and Ignoring the Inbox
Apr 30, 2016
3: #AmOverwhelmed, Killing Other People’s Darlings and Timing Pitches
Apr 23, 2016
2: #AmPitching, Good Strategies and Unexpected Hurdles
Apr 13, 2016
1: #AmProcrastinating, with Frankensock and Poop
Apr 03, 2016