Podcast Episodes

Nicholas Erik on Branding and How to Leverage your Backlist for Longevity

Episode 083 / Nicholas Erik shares tips on branding and discusses how to use your backlist for long term success. We also talk about the importance o…

5 years, 1 month ago

What We Wish We’d Known about Developing Story Ideas

Episode 082 / How do you take a germ of an idea and shape it into a full-length novel? It’s not a clean-cut process, and it changes with each book, b…

5 years, 1 month ago

Tricia O’Malley on Designing Your Perfect Day

Episode 081 / Romance and cozy author Tricia O’Malley shares how she designed her perfect day and then created a writing lifestyle that gave her free…

5 years, 2 months ago

Max Monroe on Co-Writing as Discovery Writers

Episode 080 / The romantic comedy writing team of Max Malone shares how they’ve collaborated and produced over thirty five books as discovery writers…

5 years, 2 months ago

H.Y. Hanna on Learning to Adjust Your Premise so that Your Novel Fits the Market

Episode 079 / Cozy mystery author H.Y. Hanna joins us today to tell us about how she learned to tweak her premise so that her series idea fit the mar…

5 years, 2 months ago

Lee Strauss on Finding Your Genre Sweet Spot

Episode 078 / Lee Strauss tells us how she found her genre sweet spot in historical mystery. This episode is full of great craft tips including: 

-cre…

5 years, 2 months ago

Genevieve Jack on Creating a Sustainable Writing Career

Episode 077 / Genevieve Jack, paranormal romance, fantasy, and urban fantasy author, shares how writing and releasing three to four books a year has …

5 years, 2 months ago

Debra Clopton: Writing When Life Throws You a Curveball

Episode 076 / Contemporary romance author Debra Clopton joins us this week to talk about how she came through a health scare and how her business was…

5 years, 3 months ago

Michele Scott on Treating Your Author Career Like a Business

Episode 075 / Michelle Scott writes in contemporary fiction, mystery, and thriller genres. She joins us today to talk about how she learned to treat …

5 years, 3 months ago

Replay: How Pippa Grant Revolutionized her Writing Career with a New Pen Name

Episode 074 / Life is a bit crazy for Sara (moving!) and Jami, so it’s a great week to look back at a favorite episode, the interview with Pippa Gran…

5 years, 3 months ago