All Episodes

Writing Disability From Experience with Crystal Seitz

How to Write a Good Haunting with Lily Anderson

Heists 101 with Caitlin Schneiderhan

Seven Point Plot Structure: Romance Edition with Tricia Levenseller

Setting as Character with Daniel Kraus

Writing Characters with Marie Lu

The Psychology of Characters with Eva Des Lauriers

Character Building with Holly Black

How to Start Writing a Second Draft

How to Write a Killer Ending

Characters We’d Die For with Martha Wells

Raising the Action, Raising the Stakes with Margaret Owen

What Needs to be in the Middle

How to Stay Excited About Your Writing

What to Do with Writer’s Block

What Needs to Be in a Beginning?

How to Start Writing a First Draft

Prewriting 101: Everything You Need to Write Before You Write

Novel Worthy Ideas

Making Old Stories New with Marissa Meyer

All the Ways Your Liver Will Betray You with Tamsyn Muir

Spinoffs with Chloe Gong

Romantasy 101 with Stephanie Garber

Surrealism with Britney Lewis

Upping a Story’s IQ with Erin Beaty

Writing Different Voices with Jesse Q. Sutanto

Concise World Building with Holly Black

Suspension of Disbelief with Emily X.R. Pan

Building Characters with V.E. Schwab

The Publishing Rollercoaster with Kristen Ciccarelli

Bonus Episode: A Baker’s Guide to Robber Pie with Liana Tan

Genre Bending with Tara Goedjen

Bonus Episode: A Deep Dive into Arcane

Some News!

5.23 Magic as an Allegory with Adrienne Tooley

5.22 Working with a Publicist with Morgan Rath

5.21 Fake Politics

5.20 Intro to Gothic Romance with Lyndall Clipstone

5.19 Nailing Character Stakes with Margaret Owen

5.18 How to Build a Scene with Ayana Gray

Bonus Episode: A Special Preview

5.17 Historical Fiction 101 with Bethany C. Morrow and CB Lee

5.16 How to be a Master of Betrayal

5.15 Poetry: the Hows and Whys with Jeff Zentner

Bonus Episode: Conlang with John Blackham

5.14 Writing Fantasy Horror with Erin A. Craig

5.13 Creating Near Futures with Axie Oh

5.12 Smaller Publishers 101 with Lori M. Lee

5.11 The Power of Subplots with Liselle Sambury

5.10 How to Write an Adaptation with Katherine Cowley

5.09 Orphaned Manuscripts (and what happens if your imprint closes!) with Erin Beaty

5.08 Anagnorisis: Characters Discovering Their True Circumstances with Erin Beaty.

5.07 Setting as Character with Lisa Maxwell

Bonus Episode: Hot Seat Query Critique with Tricia Levenseller

5.06 The Mentor Always Dies: How to Write Mentor Figures

5.05 Satisfying Relationship Arcs with Eric Smith

5.04 Author - Editor Relationships with Sarah McCabe

5.03 Author - Agent Relationships with Ben Grange

5.02 Prewriting 101 with Namina Forna

5.01 How to Train Your Heroes

Bonus Episode: Hot Seat Critique with Caitlin and Cameron

4.25 Getting Your Characters to Squad Up

4.24 Illustration as Narrative with Isaac Stewart

4.23 Platonic Relationships

4.22 Balancing Those Plots with Sara B. Larson

Bonus Episode: Hot Seat Critique with Caitlin

4.21 Fantasy Sports with Amparo Ortiz

4.20 The Proper Care and Management of Plot Twists

Bonus Episode: Q&A with Aminah Mae Safi

4.19 Romance and Comedy and Characters, Oh My! with Aminah Mae Safi

4.18 Where Genres Meet with Tracy Deonn

4.17 Tone

4.16 Perseverance with Darcie Little Badger

Bonus: Hot Seat Critique with Caitlin and Cameron

4.15 Author-Agent Relationships with Holly Root

4.14 Monkey Closets with Samantha Hastings

4.13 Bookstagram with Bridget Howard

Bonus Episode: Q&A with Marissa Meyer and DongWon Song

4.12 Collaboration with the Lady Janies

4.11 Twenty Questions with DongWon Song

4.10 Keeping it Grounded with Lauren Spieller

4.9 Juggling Multiple POVs with Marissa Meyer

4.8 Unlikable Characters with Kiersten White

4.7 Dispatches from the Closet with Ben Grange

4.6 It's Complicated with Misa Sugiura

4.5 Layers of Tension with Katherine Arden

4.4 Authentic Kid Voice with Tae Keller

4.3 Characters Are Like Onions with Rebecca Ross

4.2 Pitch Wars 101 with Sarah Nicolas

Bonus Episode: Reactions to The Rise of Skywalker with Emily Duncan

4.1 I Made It All Up with Emily Duncan

Bonus Episode: Behind the Scenes in Publishing with Tony Daniel

3.21 Getting Those Hobbits Out the Door

3.20 Character is Setting with Tony Daniel

3.19 How to Not Discover Witches

Bonus Episode: Kate Watson Query and FanX Q&A

3.18 The Emperor King's Assassin with Ben Grange

3.17 Save the Dragons with Jodi Meadows

3.16 Heebie Jeebie Research with Susan R. Matthews

3.15 Magic Systems 101 (and when to throw them out)