All Episodes

By the Pricking of Our Thumbs: On Writing Villains

(Mostly) Good Lit Friends: In Conversation with Regina Robbins

Algorithmically Yours: How BookTok Ate Reading

Interview with Author Isaac Grijalva

Sir, This Is a Wendy's: What Do Writers Owe Readers

We Regret to Inform You Everyone Sucks: How Capitalism Brought Us "Shy Girl"

Hot Gos Warmed Over!

Agent Wish List: What We Wish Literary Agents Would Do Better

Please Hate Me: Social Media For Writers

Kill All the Darlings: The Art and Agonies of Shelving a Book (S02E07)

Love at First Line (S02E06)

Misery Loves Company: Why Writers Need Community (S02E05)

It's a Hard Knock (Writing) Life: What We Wish We’d Known When We Started (S02E04)

Rejection Letters: When They're Just Not That Into You (S02E03)

Comp Titles and Other Humiliating Experiences (S02E02)

Right Book, Wrong Place (S02E01)

BLF Holiday Extravaganza!!! (S01E21)

Tropes: Love Them or Leave Them? (S01E20)

Interview with Author Jessica Lunt (S01E19)

Alpha and Beta Readers: Tell Me What's Wrong—No, Not Like That (S01E18)

Writing Groups and Critique Partners: The Good, The Bad, and The "Why Did I Agree to This?" (S01E17)

So You Want to Write a Novel — Really? Part 3: THE END (S01E16)

So You Want to Write a Novel — Really? Part 2: The Process (S01E15)

So You Want to Write a Novel — Really? Part 1: Before You Begin (SO1E14)

Revisions: RIP (Some of) It Up and Start Again (S01E13)

Pitch Perfect (S01E12)

Interview with Amber Hamilton (S01E11)

Show Not Tell: Writing Rules Ranked, Debunked and Derided (S01E10)

Conference Confidential: Rocky Mountain High Anxiety (S01E09)

Writer's Block: When the Words Don't Word Right (S01E08)

Querying for the Terribly Nervous Part 2: The Synopsis (S01E07)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Query Letter (S01E06)

The Writing Contest Industrial Complex (S01E05)

Comparison is the Thief of Joy (S01E04)

Tales from PubTips (S01E03)

Book Two: Writing In Purgatory (S01E02)

Are We Still Writers If We're Not Writing? (S01E01)