All Episodes

The 30-Day Revision: Episode 338 How KJ Revised a Novel in 30 Days/189 Hours and approximately 72 Chocolate-Covered Peeps

Publishing's Secret Side-Door: Episode 337 Writing Object Lessons and Books-for-series with Maria Teresa Hart

Why You Should Do NaNoWriMo (and how to make the most of it) 336

How Butter Makes Everything (Including Books) Better: Writing Can't-Stop-Won't-Stop Fiction with Theodora Taylor (Flashback Friday)

How to Work with Small Presses and Literary Magazines—Episode 335 with Terena Bell

How Productive Writers get it done (by listening Flashback Friday with Laura Vanderkam) (Replay of Episode 116)

Using tropes and genres like a pro: Ep 334 with Alexis Hall

Which Kind of Writer Are You? Flashback Friday with Gretchen Rubin (Replay Episode 107)

Very Serious About Fun Reads Ep 333 with Emily Henry

How to Plan for Fall When You Don't EVEN Know... Episode 332

Bonus BP10: How to set your own goals, and meet them.

Bonus BP9: How to Keep Going When All You See Are the Problems

Bonus BP8: Easier Outlining for the Loquacious and the Reluctant

Bonus BP7: Finding Your Drivers

Bonus BP6: TOCs, Chapter Headings, POV---It's all Structure.

Bonus BPB 5: The Change is the Theme

Bonus BPB 4: Jacket Copy Cheats and Hacks

Bonus BPB 3: Write What You Want--to Be Read.

Bonus BPB 2: What's this about--and how knowing the answer makes everything else easier.

BPB Bonus 1: What's YOUR Why?

321 What Do You Want to Achieve this Year--and are you half-way there?

Blueprint for a Book Extravaganza: How to plan a book in 10 episodes

320: How to Create Your Own Market

Write Now with Sarah Rhea Werner

But Everything is so SHINY: Episode 319, Coaching journalist Alison Myers on restarting a writing career.

Yes You Can Write In More Than One Genre. Here's how: Episode 318 flips the shelves.

How Writing Middle Grade is Different, and How It's Not: Episode 317 with Jamie Sumner

Living with Writer Envy. Episode 316: We wanted to call this conquering it but we can't.

When Your Agent Doesn't Like Your Idea as Much as You Do: Episode 315 with Kristen Green

How to Write a Cozy Mystery (the rules are changing): Episode 314 with Mia Manansala

One Man's Quest to Find the Next Big Book Idea: Episode 313 with A.J. Jacobs

Essays that start light, then hit hard: Episode 312 with Mary Laura Philpott

Where Should Your Energy Go NOW? Episode 311--everything evolves with Jess and KJ

Jodi Kantor Chases the Truth: Episode 310 is a Primer on Investigative Journalism

Nonfiction Masterclass: Combining Narrative Structure, Lived Experience and Geopolitics in Episode 309 with Scott Carney and Jason Miklian.

How to Love Writing What You Can Sell: Episode 308 with Seressia Glass

How to Be on Bookstagram Episode 307 with #bookmarkedbya

Does Your Author Website Answer the Right Questions? Episode 306 with Anne Le Tissier

But what if my old boss is pissed? Episode 305: Workplace Memoir with Cate Doty

Sometimes You Can't Go with the Flow: Hacking Writing Energies in Episode 304 with Jess and KJ

Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Episode 303 with Sarina, Jess and KJ

Writer De-Snobbification: Episode 302 with Katherine Center

Do Morning Pages Work? Episode 301: Is this, or is it not, the Artist's Way?

BONUS: Listen to The Book Dreams Podcast with Guest Kathryn Schulz

ALWAYS WIPS Episode 300--Podcast #Goals, Translating Earnings, Talking $$ and Craft and Interview Skillz

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

How to Travel for Research (even before you sell the book)--Episode 298 with Sarah Stewart Taylor

How to Build a Platform in a Zillion (Not) Easy Steps: Episode 297, A coaching call with Alison Zak

[announcer yells] GOALS: Episode 296

Heck of a Year: Episode 295 is 2021 in review

Butter Up Your Writing: Episode 294 Using Universal Fantasy to Write Better and Sell More with Theodora Taylor

How to Build a Literary Life: Episode 293 with Zibby Owens

A Busload of Books: Illustrator Robbi Behr and Writer Matthew Swanson Take Their Work and Their Family on the Road in Episode 292.

How Do You Write a Non-Fiction Book in less than a Year? Episode 291: Coaching Call with Emily Edlynn

What Not to Do, Self-Pub Edition Episode 290 with Cate Frazier-Neely

Why Can't I Finish My Novel? Episode 289: A Coaching Call with Ophir Lehavy

Non-Toxic Feedback: Building workshops and writing groups. Episode 288 with Joni Cole

I Have This Idea...Structuring Non-fiction and Memoir: Episode 287 Coaching Call with Emily Henderson

Breaking into Television Writing: Episode 286 with Will Morey

When Agents Ask You to "Revise and Resubmit": Episode 285 with Mindy Carlson

When Inner Dialogue Isn't "Telling" and When It Is in Memoir and Fiction: Episode 284 with Jess, KJ and Sarina

Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Episode 283: Turning situations into books with Heather Chavez

Episode 282: 40 Years of Procrastination with Joy Imboden Overstreet

Episode 281: Writing with the Door Open (Stephen King May Be Wrong)

Episode 280: Book Launching Fun with Jess

Episode 279: Collaborating, Revising and Proposing--What We Did On Our Summer Vacations

Episode 278: Editing

Episode 277: Writer Comfort Reads

Episode 276: When You Don't Know Why You're Doing This

Episode 275: Writing While White (or otherwise part of the historically dominant paradigm)

Episode 274: Getting Published

Episode 273: #Writing Books for When You're Stuck

Episode 272: Sometimes Writers Need to Up Our Game

Episode 271: #Productivity: Write More Better Faster Yes Please

Episode 270: #Plotting Your Heart (and Book) Out

Episode 269: Finding #Inspiration on the Writer's Bookshelf

Episode 268 #SummerReading: Whose List Looks Like Your List?

Episode 267 #Summer Writing Plans

Episode 266 #Sensitivity Readers with Jordan Shapiro and Jazz

Episode 265 Everybody Suffers, Not Everybody Can #Write About it with Stacy Kim

Episode 264 Being #Edited (is a Very Good Thing)

Episode 263: No, Really, It's #Fiction: Writing novels that reflect (but differ dramatically from) your life with Emma Gannon

Episode 262: #Breaking into Food Writing and Redefining Success with Reem Kassis

Episode 261 Really #Funny, Real and Funny: Rom-Coms, plotting and finding characters with Mhairi McFarlane

Episode 260 #Writing Without Knowing Where You're Going with Kristin Van Ogtrop

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?

Episode 258 Writing While #Broken: Talking Depression, Anxiety and Writer's Block with Jenny Lawson

Episode 257 Become a #Better Faster Stronger Writer with Becca Syme

Episode 256 Your Q's, A'd: Stealing ideas, asking for blurbs and the elusive "platform"

Episode 255 The Power of Writing as Play with Nalini Singh

Episode 254 How to Prep a NonFiction Launch the Jess Way

Ep 253 From Breakout Article to Book: Writing about #Nothing and Everything with Olga Mecking

Episode 252 How to Write a Post-Covid Romance with Alisha Rai

Episode 251 How to give your fun read a solid, poke-in-the-gut point with Anna North

Episode 250: Growing Thick Skin: Handling #Haters, Commenters and Bad Reviews

Episode 249: Turning Data into #Narrative with Ron Lieber

Episode 248 Mental #Chatter with Ethan Kross: Harnessing the voices in our heads for good

Episode 247: #Writing All Over the Map with Jacob Sager Weinstein

Episode 246: Historical #Fiction the Only Way I Know How with Beverly Jenkins

Episode 245: #Pitching with Passion with Lisa Levenstein