The Writing Table with Kris Clink
253 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Writing Table is a podcast for writers and book lovers. Whether you're a seasoned writer or curious about the writing life, pull up a chair. Hear from authors from every stage-from New York Times list-makers to debuts. You'll get a behind-the-scenes view of your favorite books-from writing the ugly first drafts to the final editorial processes.
Check out interviews with Phillipa Gregory, Jennifer Weiner, Lemony Snicket, Laurie Frankel, and so many others. Come on in-there's always room at the writing table.
Hosted by Kris Clink, author of Goodbye, Lark Lovejoy and Sissie Klein is Completely Normal. Kris’s novels are set in middle America where front porches offer the best views, books are treasured, and there’s always room to pull up an extra chair at dinner. A native Texan, she’s now at home in Kansas with her husband, two spoiled pups, and the gorgeous cardinals who visit her back deck.
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Summer Message from Kris
July 29, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute - 759 KBThe Writing Table is taking some time off in August, but Kris and her team will be back in September with more fascinating conversations with authors and publishing pros. Until then, wishing you and yours the safest, kindest, and happiest summer adventures. Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writin...
Lindsay Cameron & No One Needs to Know
July 29, 2023 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBLindsay Cameron worked as a corporate lawyer for many years in Vancouver and New York City before leaving the law behind to write books. Her debut, Biglaw, was optioned for film by Paramount and named a best book of the year by Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Harper's Bazaar, among others. Her suspense debut, Just One Look, was published in 2021 and the New York Times called it "delicious and marvelously controlled...a wild ride of a novel" and "one of the most viscerally accurate renderings...
Kelly J. Ford: Behind The Hunt
July 20, 2023 20:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBKelly J. Ford is the author of the crime novels, Real Bad Things and Cottonmouths, which has “impressive depths of character and setting,” according to the Los Angeles Review, which named it one of its Best Books of 2017. An Arkansas native, Kelly writes crime fiction set in the Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley. She currently lives on Cape Cod. Learn more about Kelly here: Website: https://kellyjford.com/ Instagram: @kellyjfordauthor Twitter: @Kelly_J_Ford Intro ree...
Annie Rains on Writing Romance and Women's Fiction
July 13, 2023 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBUSA Today bestselling author Annie Rains lives in a small, coastal North Carolina town, full of lovable folks, scenic downtown areas, and breathtaking nature—similar to the towns she writes about in her books. Annie’s love of reading and writing grabbed hold of her at a young age and never let go. Her first book was published in 2015, and she’s been writing heartfelt, page-turning stories ever since. When Annie isn’t writing, she’s reading from her never-ending TBR stack on her bedside table...
Donna Hill: Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing
July 06, 2023 18:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBDonna Hill began her career in 1987 writing short stories for the confession magazines. Since that time she has more than 100 published titles to her credit since her first novel was released in 1990, and is considered one of the early pioneers of the African American romance genre. Three of her novels Intimate Betrayal, Masquerade and A Private Affair have been adapted for television. The only Arabesque /BET Books author that can claim that distinction. She has been featured in Essence, th...
Bryn Turnbull: The Paris Deception
June 29, 2023 20:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBWhen she was eleven years old, Bryn Turnbull accidentally put her foot through a single-pane window while leafing through a well-worn copy of Sandman (Volume 2). The incident, which resulted in a trip to the hospital, five stitches, and a unique application of superglue, taught her two things: one, that reading is not, and should not be attempted as, a full-contact sport; and two, that writers can create worlds within a book so absorbing, so completely and utterly all-encompassing, that they...
Namrata Patel & Scent Of a Garden
June 28, 2023 22:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBNamrata Patel is an Indian-American author who lives in Boston. Her writing examines diaspora, dual-cultural identity among Indian-Americans and explores this dynamic while also touching on both—the family’s we’re born with and those we choose. Namrata has lived in India, Spokane, London, and New York City. Namrata has been writing for most of her adult life and loves creating characters who are relatable and aspirational. Her heroines range from quiet to kick-ass and her heroes are swoon-wo...
Hannah Dolby: No Life for a Lady
June 28, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBHannah Dolby’s first job was in the circus and she has aimed to keep life as interesting since. She trained as a journalist in Hastings and has worked in PR for many years, promoting museums, galleries, palaces, gardens and even Dolly the sheep. She completed the Curtis Brown selective three-month novel writing course, and she won runner-up in the Comedy Women in Print Awards for this novel with the prize of a place on an MA in Comedy Writing at the University of Falmouth. She lives in...
Fantasy Writer Adrian Tchaikovsky
June 21, 2023 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell. Learn more at: adriantchaikovsky.com Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter...
Literary Agent CeCe Lyra: Querying, R&Rs, & What No One Tells Writers
June 19, 2023 22:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBCecilia “CeCe” Lyra is a literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency representing adult fiction and non-fiction. She is drawn to books with strong hooks and smooth writing, told with originality, nuance, and authenticity. A long-term strategic thinker, CeCe prioritizes the creative reach and sustainable longevity of her authors’ careers, and she is especially looking for clients with whom she can build fruitful, lasting relationships. Both a storyteller and a storyseller, CeCe believes that stori...
Surf When You Can: Retired Navy Captain Brett Crozier
June 14, 2023 02:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBBrett Crozier grew up in California, graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and embarked on a thirty-year career in the Navy, flying dozens of combat missions over Iraq and leading at the highest levels of operational command. He served as the commanding officer of a combat F/A-18 strike fighter squadron, the world’s largest and most advanced communications ship, and ultimately the USS Theodore Roosevelt before retiring from the Navy in 2022. Surf When You Can is his first book. Ple...
Surf When You Can: Retired Navy Captain Brett Crosier
June 14, 2023 02:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBBrett Crozier grew up in California, graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and embarked on a thirty-year career in the Navy, flying dozens of combat missions over Iraq and leading at the highest levels of operational command. He served as the commanding officer of a combat F/A-18 strike fighter squadron, the world’s largest and most advanced communications ship, and ultimately the USS Theodore Roosevelt before retiring from the Navy in 2022. Surf When You Can is his first book. Ple...
Ashley Winstead & Fool Me Once
June 08, 2023 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBAshley Winstead’s 2021 breakout thriller, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, was an Amazon Editor’s Best Thriller, an Apple Books Best Book of August, as well as a Library Journal, New York Times, CrimeReads, Parade, and Goodreads best or most anticipated thriller of the year. Her 2022 thriller, The Last Housewife, was a Library Reads pick, a Loan Star pick, an Amazon Editor’s Best Thriller, as well as a Cosmopolitan, Good Morning America, Good Housekeeping, Seattle Times, and Southern Review of...
Meredith Ireland: Why Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller
June 01, 2023 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBMeredith Ireland is a Korean American attorney and writer, born in Seoul. She is a Rollins College and University of Miami School of Law alumna. She writes young adult and children’s books and is proudly represented by Lauren Spieller of Folio Literary Agency. Her debut novel, THE JASMINE PROJECT, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, a Best Book of 2021 according to Boston Public Library, and received a starred review from Booklist. Her follow up, EVERYONE HATES KELSIE MILLER,...
Rebecca Keller & You Should Have Known
May 18, 2023 22:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBRebecca Keller is a writer, an internationally exhibited artist, a college professor, a Fulbright Scholar, and recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. But once upon a time she was a house-cleaner, shuttle driver, waitress, and nursing home cook. She got a graduate degree to improve her lot, and ended up working in museums, where she wrote about art and gave tours, making her own work at night. She had children. She began teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Ch...
Harper Kincaid & A Midsummer Night's Scheme
May 12, 2023 20:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBBorn in California and raised in South Florida, Harper Kincaid has moved around like a nomad with a bounty on her head ever since. She has earned a master’s degree in Gender History and another in Clinical/Macro Social Work. She has published with Samhain, Entangled, Crooked Lane Press, Throat Punch Media, and Medium. Her latest book is the acclaimed sequel mystery, A Midsummer Night’s Scheme, part of the Book Binder mystery series lauded by Kirkus Review, Publisher’s Weekly, Fresh Fictio...
Nancy Crochiere's Journey to Graceland
May 07, 2023 01:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBNancy Crochiere wrote a humor column about family life for Massachusetts newspapers for thirteen years. Her collection of those columns, titled The Mother Load, was a finalist for Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year in humor and the Independent Publishers of New England 2014 Book Award. A graduate of Middlebury College, she earned a master’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota, is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, and worked as a develop...
Cierra Horton McElroy's Atomic Family
May 04, 2023 03:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBCiera Horton McElroy was raised in Orlando, Florida. She holds a BA from Wheaton College and an MFA from the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Bridge Eight, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and Saw Palm, among others. She currently lives in St. Louis with her husband and son. Learn more at cieramcelroy.com
Ciera Horton McElroy's Atomic Family
May 04, 2023 03:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBCiera Horton McElroy was raised in Orlando, Florida. She holds a BA from Wheaton College and an MFA from the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Bridge Eight, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and Saw Palm, among others. She currently lives in St. Louis with her husband and son. Learn more at cieramcelroy.com Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writ...
Alisa Valdés & Hollow Beasts
April 27, 2023 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBAlisa Lynn Valdés is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 1 million books in print in 11 languages. She started her writing career as an award-winning staff writer for The Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times. Alisa holds a bachelor's degree in music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she majored in jazz performance on the tenor saxophone. Her master's in journalism comes from Columbia University in New York City. For twenty years, Alisa was a fit...
Lexie Elliott: Bright and Deadly Things
April 18, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBLexie Elliott has been writing for as long as she can remember, but she began to focus on it more seriously after she lost her banking job in 2009 due to the Global Financial Crisis. After some success in short story competitions, she began planning a novel. With two kids and a (new) job, it took some time for that novel to move from her head to the page, but the result was The French Girl, which was published by Berkley in February 2018 - available on Amazon now! This was followed by The Mi...
Allison Winn Scotch: Behind The Rewind
April 07, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBAllison Winn Scotch is the bestselling author of nine novels (tenth on its way), including BETWEEN ME AND YOU, IN TWENTY YEARS, TIME OF MY LIFE, which is currently in development at Sony Pictures, and THE REWIND. Allison graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Honors History and Concentration in Marketing from the Wharton School of Business. When she’s not planted in front of the computer, she’s hiking, running, doing yoga, reading, listening to music, negotiat...
Elizabeth Shick & The Golden Land
April 05, 2023 23:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBElizabeth Shick is an award-winning novelist whose creativity is influenced by her many years living abroad, including six years in Myanmar. Originally from Newton, Massachusetts, she grew up dreaming of other worlds, both real and imagined. As an Africana Studies major at Vassar College, Liz spent a transformative year at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania studying Literature and Revolution, Imperialism and Liberation, and African Wood Carving. She went on to obtain a Master of In...
Lauren Thoman - I'll Stop The World
March 31, 2023 21:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBAfter being born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lauren Thoman eventually moved with her husband to live outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Although her degree was in music education, Lauren quickly realized that the life of a band director was not for her. After exploring various other fields for a few years, she started working on her first novel when her second child started preschool. However, those early manuscripts never made it all the way to publication, and ...
Tracy Clark, Award Winning Crime Novelist
March 23, 2023 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBTracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PaI Cassandra Raines. Her debut, BROKEN PLACES, made Library Journal’s list of the Best Crime Fiction of 2018 and CrimeReads named Cass Raines Best New PI of 2018. The novel was nominated for a Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, an Anthony Award for Best Debut Novel and a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. Her second Raines novel, BORROWED TIME, was a finalist for the 2020 Left...
Elle Marr & The Family Bones
March 16, 2023 01:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBElle Marr is the author of thrillers THE MISSING SISTER (2020), LIES WE BURY (2021), STRANGERS WE KNOW (2022), and THE FAMILY BONES (2023). She is (evidently) a fan of coffee. THE MISSING SISTER was a #1 Amazon bestseller and an Amazon Charts bestseller, while LIES WE BURY earned a Kirkus starred review, and STRANGERS WE KNOW was an Audible Most Anticipated Thriller. Publishers Weekly gave a starred review to THE FAMILY BONES, saying “Readers will be captivated from the very first page.” ...
Sariah Wilson and The Chemistry of Love
March 09, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBUSA Today Bestselling author Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mt. Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. She grew up in southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with t...
Sariah Wilson & The Chemistry of Love
March 09, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBUSA Today Bestselling author Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mt. Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. She grew up in southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with t...
The Fresh Prince Project with Chris Palmer
March 03, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBCHRIS PALMER has spent twenty years as a journalist writing about the intersection of entertainment, culture, and sports for ESPN, Bleacher Report, and other outlets. An authority on all things Fresh Prince, he has authored six books, including the New York Times bestsellers WIDE OPEN, the autobiography of Supercross Champion Jeremy McGrath, and Laker great Lamar Odom’s memoir, DARKNESS TO LIGHT. Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/...
Kelly Farmer: Lessons Learned Writing Stories on the Ice
February 23, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBKelly Farmer (she/her) has been writing romance novels since junior high. In those days, they featured high school quarterbacks named Brad who drove Corvettes and gals with names like Desireé because her own name is rather plain. Her stories since then have ranged from historical and contemporary male/female romances to light women’s fiction to LGBTQ+ romance. One theme remains the same: everyone deserves to have a happy ending. When not writing, she enjoys being outside in nature, quoting ...
Melissa Payne: A Light in The Forest
February 16, 2023 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBMelissa Payne is the bestselling, award-winning author of The Secrets of Lost Stones and Memories in the Drift. For as long as she can remember, Melissa has been telling stories in one form or another—from high school newspaper articles to a graduate thesis to blogging about marriage and motherhood. But she first learned the real importance of storytelling when she worked for a residential and day treatment center for abused and neglected children. There she wrote speeches and letters to rai...
Burt Weissbourd's Rough Justice
February 09, 2023 17:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBBurt Weissbourd is a novelist, screenwriter, and producer of feature films. He was born in 1949 and graduated cum laude from Yale University, with honors in psychology. During his student years, he volunteered at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and taught English to college students in Thailand. After he graduated, he wrote, directed, and produced educational films for Gilbert Altschul Productions. He began a finance program at the Northwestern University Graduate School of Business but le...
Romance Writer Megan Frampton: Trusting Your Voice
February 01, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBMegan Frampton writes historical romance under her own name and romantic women's fiction as Megan Caldwell. She likes the color black, gin, dark-haired British men, and huge earrings, not in that order. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and kid. You can find her at meganframpton.com at facebook.com/meganframptonbooks/ and @meganf. Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtable...
Lisa Cupolo: Short Stories and Life Lessons
January 26, 2023 21:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBLisa has been a paparazzi photographer, an aid worker in Kenya, a script doctor in LA, and a literary publicist at HarperCollins in Toronto. Her stories have been published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, and others. She holds a BA in Philosophy from The University of Western Ontario, a graduate degree in Portrait Photography from The London Institute, and an MFA from the University of Memphis. She has lived all over the world, but currently resid...
Lisa Cupolo: Short Stories & Life Lessons
January 26, 2023 21:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBLisa has been a paparazzi photographer, an aid worker in Kenya, a script doctor in LA, and a literary publicist at HarperCollins in Toronto. Her stories have been published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, and others. She holds a BA in Philosophy from The University of Western Ontario, a graduate degree in Portrait Photography from The London Institute, and an MFA from the University of Memphis. She has lived all over the world, but currently resid...
Tori Whitaker: A Matter of Happiness
January 23, 2023 03:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBTori Whitaker is the bestselling author of Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish and A Matter of Happiness. She belongs to the Bourbon Women Association and the Historical Novel Society. Her work has appeared in the Historical Novels Review and Bookmarks magazine. Tori graduated from Indiana University, is an alum of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, and is recently retired from a national law firm where she served as chief marketing officer. She spent a decade in Detroit because of her husband’s career in ...
Corie Adjmi on Short Stories & The Marriage Box
January 12, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBCorie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award. Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Motherwell and Kveller. She’s been featured in Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Times, Parade and BuzzFeed. Her forthcoming boo...
Corie Adjmi on Short Stories and The Marriage Box
January 12, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBCorie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award. Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Motherwell and Kveller. She’s been featured in Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Times, Parade and BuzzFeed. Her forthcoming boo...
Emmy Award Winning Rebecca Hanover: The Last Applicant
January 12, 2023 02:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBRebecca Hanover is the New York Times bestselling author of THE SIMILARS duology. After graduating from Stanford University with a BA in English and drama, Rebecca joined the writing team of the CBS daytime drama GUIDING LIGHT, where she earned an Emmy Award. Still, she never lost her love of books—particularly YA. She now writes Young Adult as well as adult novels full-time from her home in San Francisco, where she enjoys matcha lattes and a complete lack of seasons. When she isn’t writing,...
Henriette Lazaridis & The Intersection of Adventure, Love, and Lies
January 06, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBHenriette Lazaridis' novel TERRA NOVA is forthcoming from Pegasus Books in Fall 2022. She is the author of the best-selling novel THE CLOVER HOUSE. Her short work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including ELLE, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, The Millions, and Pangyrus, and has earned her a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. Henriette grew up in the Boston area as the only child of Greek expats, speaking Greek as her first language...
Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop - Daughter of Spies
December 20, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBAs a child, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, along with her five brothers, was raised to revere the tribal legends of the Alsop and Roosevelt families. Her parents’ marriage, lived in the spotlight of 1950s Washington where the author’s father, journalist Stewart Alsop, grew increasingly famous, was not what either of her parents had imagined it would be. Her mother’s strict Catholicism and her father’s restless ambition collided to create a strangely muted and ominous world, one that mirrored the ...
Steve Phillips: Securing a Multiracial Democracy
December 19, 2022 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSteve Phillips is a national political leader, bestselling author, and columnist. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority and the forthcoming book How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good. He is a columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, and an opinion contributor to The New York Times. He is also the host of “Democracy in Color with St...
Steve Phillips: Securing a Multiracial Democracy
December 19, 2022 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBSteve Phillips is a national political leader, bestselling author, and columnist. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority and the forthcoming book How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good. He is a columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, and an opinion contributor to The New York Times. He is also the host of “Democracy in Color with St...
The Color of Ice with Barbara Linn Probst
December 18, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBBarbara Linn Probst is an award-winning author of contemporary women’s fiction living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her acclaimed novels QUEEN OF THE OWLS (2020) and THE SOUND BETWEEN THE NOTES (2021) were Gold and Silver medalists for prestigious national awards, and THE SOUND BETWEEN THE NOTES was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Books of 2021. Barbara has also published over fifty essays on the craft of writing for sites such as Jane Friedman and...
Maddie Frost and Funny Books for Kids
December 15, 2022 21:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBMADDIE FROST is an author-illustrator from Massachusetts. She has written and illustrated over several books and is currently working on her debut early reader graphic novel series, WOMBATS! The first book is set to publish Spring 2023. Her obsession with 90’s Nickelodeon cartoons started her love for characters and storytelling and then a love for picture books. She studied Animation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design which further pushed her in the direction of children's media. O...
Maddie Frost and Funny Books for Kids
December 15, 2022 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBMADDIE FROST is an author-illustrator from Massachusetts. She has written and illustrated over several books and is currently working on her debut early reader graphic novel series, WOMBATS! The first book is set to publish Spring 2023. Her obsession with 90’s Nickelodeon cartoons started her love for characters and storytelling and then a love for picture books. She studied Animation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design which further pushed her in the direction of children's media. O...
Meredith Schorr's As Seen on TV
December 15, 2022 03:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBA born and bred New Yorker and lifelong daydreamer, Meredith Schorr fueled her passion for writing everything from restaurant reviews, original birthday cards, and even work-related emails into a career penning romantic comedies. When she’s not writing books filled with grand gestures and hard-earned happily-ever-afters or working as a trademark paralegal, she’s most often reading, running, or watching TV…for research, of course. Learn more at Meredithschorr.com Intro reel, Writing Table P...
Writing for Young People with Anthony McGowan
December 12, 2022 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBAnthony McGowan is one of the most widely acclaimed young adult and children’s authors in the UK. His books have won numerous major awards. In 2020, he was awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for Lark. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour. His YA novel The Knife that Killed Me was made into a critically-lauded film in 2014. Anthony lives in London, with his wife, two children and dog. Anthony’s lates...
Stacy Gold is Wild at Heart
December 06, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBCompulsive tea drinker. Outdoor sports junkie. Lover of good (and bad) puns. Award-winning adventure romance author Stacy Gold gave up her day job as Communications Director of a nonprofit mountain biking organization to write sassy, steamy, contemporary romance novels. Her stories are packed with strong, independent women finding love and adventure in the great outdoors--think Sarina Bowen or Elle Kennedy but featuring skiing, mountain biking and other outdoor sports. When Stacy’s not bus...
Gin Phillips's Family Law
November 30, 2022 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBGin Phillips has written six novels, and her work has been sold in 29 countries. Her debut novel, The Well and the Mine, won the 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Her novel Fierce Kingdom was named one of the Best Crime Novels of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. It was also named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Amazon, and Kirkus Reviews. A Kirkus starred review called it “poignant and profound,” adding that "this adrenaline-fueled thriller will shatter ...