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Apr 27, 2023

This week’s podcast features Robin Maass (The Walled Garden, Spark Press, May 2022). We discuss MFA programs and how they often neglect to teach story structure, and how, as a result, she had to move from “discovering the book” or pantsing to realizing you need stepping stones along the way. We explore how every...


Apr 20, 2023

Our guest this week is Jody Herpin (Relative Consequences, Indie Published, March 2022). Jody always starts any new writing project by getting to know her characters, which includes not only a lengthy questionnaire, but a “face to face” interview, and a visual portfolio, including facial features, how they dress,...


Apr 13, 2023

This week’s podcast features Carol Orange (A Discerning Eye, Cavan Bridge Press, October 2020). Carol’s background in both art (art books in London, art dealer in Boston) and publishing (editorial assistant at a Big Five house) provided plenty of ideas for her art heist novel centering around the looting of 13...


Apr 6, 2023

 This week’s podcast features Suzanne Mattaboni (Once in a Lifetime, Touchpoint Press, March 2023). There’s much more to 1980’s America than disco balls and Andy Warhol and in Mattaboni’s debut novel we get to explore the avant-garde art scene, New Wave culture, and what it was like for a young woman trying to...