Oct 30, 2025
This week’s guest is Wendy Haller (The Flannigan Girls, Stillwater River Publications, June 2024). Because Wendy’s debut centers around sisterhood, we discuss sibling bonds, birth order research, and the experts she turned to both professionally and in her personal life when writing An author who writes out of...
Oct 23, 2025
My guest this week is Catherine Matthews (Releasing the Reins, indie published, June 2024). Catherine describes writing a first draft of your debut as “building the airplane while flying it” but got lots of help and support from various writing groups she joined and classes she took. Her mash-up novel blends...
Oct 16, 2025
This week’s guest is Jaclyn Westlake (Dear Dotty, Avon Books/Harper Collins, June 2024). Jaclyn signed up for Stanford’s 2-year Novel Writing Course and emerged with the first draft of her debut, a humorous women’s fiction centered on a young woman finding her true path following the example of an unconventional...
Oct 9, 2025
Our guest this week is Amy Dressler (How to Align the Stars, Egret Lake Books, June 2024). Amy’s biggest challenge in writing her debut was finding the self-confidence to believe she was qualified to tackle a beloved Shakespeare story and update it for our current time. She was helped in that effort by a...
Oct 2, 2025
This week’s guest is Darlene Corbett (Visible, WordCrafts Press May 2024). A psychotherapist for over 30 years, Darlene used a therapy group as a stepping-off point to her debut, featuring five people with disparate challenges and a counselor with problems of her own. We discuss the misconceptions people have about...