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If you"re an aspiring author and want insights into what"s involved in launching a book into the world, this is the podcast for you. Maggie Smith, author and blogger, interviews debut novelists from the Women"s Fiction Writers Association discussing not only the inspiration behind their book, but also their insights into the writing process, the best advice they ever got, and the joys and sometimes pitfalls they encountered on their path to publication.

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89: Madeleine Van Hecke - Author of Once You Know

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2021/04/29

In this podcast Madeleine and I discuss how working how working with a developmental editor for three years was instrumental in teaching her what she didn’t know about writing, how she researched the difficult subject matter including sexual abuse which occurs in her book, and how an early childhood experience resulted in her life-long interest in true crime. Madeleine Van Hecke writes dark stories to help women navigate the shadow side of life. A psychologist, former college professor, and author

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88: Paula Adler - Author of Return to Magnolia Bloom

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2021/04/22

In this interview we discuss how Paula returned to writing after a 20-year hiatus and switched from romance to women’s fiction and why she signed up to go exclusive with Amazon’s KDP program. If you’ve ever wondered about what it would be like to publish your own books, don’t miss Paula’s advice on finding fans through newsletter subscription programs, how you need to write and edit quickly to satisfy your readers, and the joy that comes with controlling your own destiny as a full-time writer.

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87: Angela Terry - Author of Charming Falls Apart

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2021/04/15

Angela Terry (Charming Falls Apart, Spark Press, August 2020) talks about how her novel’s protagonist was inspired by a woman Angela met casually at a bachelorette party, her decision to publish with a hybrid press rather than self-publish, and how she finds the late-night hours her best time to shut off the rest of the world and concentrate on her writing. Angela is an attorney who formerly practiced intellectual property law at large firms in Chicago and San Francisco. She resides in San

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86: Katey Schultz - Author of Still Come Home

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2021/04/08

During a wide-ranging talk about such diverse topics as the effect of language on how we view war to a discussion on finding mentors within books themselves to what it means to nurture your creative spirit and grow your talent, Katey reveals herself to be a disciplined, intelligent writer and teacher who thinks deeply about how language and the written word can shape our lives. Katey is the award-winning author of Flashes of War (stories) and Still Come Home (novel), both published by Loyola

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85: Sarah McCraw Crow - Author of The Wrong Kind of...

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2021/04/01

Sarah's lifelong obsession with Dartmouth as well as her fascination with the challenges that faced her mother's generation of women in the early '70's sparked the idea for this historical novel, which she wrote after spending seven years on a previous one that garnered her an agent but never sold. We discuss how she reached out directly to bookstores once the pandemic hit, the long tail of book promotion, and the difficulty of judging which marketing techniques really affect book sales. Sarah

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84: Mary Helen Sheriff - Author of Boop and Eve's...

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2021/03/25

Mary Helen talks about the three things she was advised not to do in a debut novel (unfortunately she’d done all three), messaging her “Christmas list” one day before her pub date with specific, simple things they could do to help her, why she’s given up on Pinterest, and why she’s writing the rough draft of her next novel as pure dialogue. Mary Helen Sheriff is a co-founder of Bookish Road Trip. After 14 years in classrooms teaching elementary school, middle school, college, and professionals,

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83: Regina Buttner - Author of Absolution

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2021/03/18

In this interview, Regina describes how she used her childhood experiences in the Catholic church to inform her protagonist’s guilt and shame over a long-buried secret, how she changed her original title during the publication process, and her positive experience going with a hybrid press for her first novel. And be sure to listen to the end to find out what Regina has in common with the Queen of England. Regina Buttner is a registered nurse-turned-writer and the debut author of ABSOLUTION, a

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82: Nguyen Phan Que Mai- Author of The Mountains Sing

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2021/03/11

Quế Mai shares how she wanted to write a novel set during the Vietnam War from the missing perspective of the Vietnamese themselves, specifically the women, who she felt were often portrayed in literature as having no agency, when actually they were unbelievably strong and resilient. We discuss how she wove ger country’s food, culture, proverbs and beliefs into a rich tapestry of a debut that made every best-seller list of 2020 (1400+ Amazon reviews), how her agent believed in her book so strongly

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81: Ehsaneh Sadr: Author of A Door Between Us

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2021/03/04

A child raised in both Mormon and Muslim religious traditions, Ehsaneh worked in Iran for several years and her experiences there form the backdrop to her novel about three people whose lives are upended by the 2009 Green Wave protests in that country. We discuss how the 2020 US election echoed many of the themes she explored in her book, how she found her perfect agent, going on sub but not selling her book the first round, and how she centered her marketing efforts on activities she enjoyed,

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80: Valerie Taylor - Author of What's Not Said

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2021/02/25

We discuss Valerie's transition from a corporate writer to writing fiction after her retirement. She’s a fan of book clubs and built her author platform partly through becoming a regular book reviewer for the national marketing firm Book Trib. In addition to her fans in the US, she’s made recent inroads into the library market in such far-off places as Singapore and Australia. Valerie grew up in CT, graduating with two degrees from Sacred Heart University. After her divorce, she spread her wings

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79: Michele Levy - Author of Anna's Dance: A Balkan...

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2021/02/18

Mining her personal knowledge of the Balkans from a long-ago adventure, Michele’s debut braids historical events with a young woman’s personal journey to find her roots, a journey which rang to the author personally because of her own explorations into her own Jewish cultural heritage. Praised for its lyrical beauty, her manuscript nevertheless was deemed “hard to market” before finding a home with Black Rose Writing. Now a resident of the Tar Heel state, Michele Levy lived a nomadic life

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78: Anita Kushwaha - Author of Secret Lives of...

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2021/02/11

Anita, an Ottawa resident, describes the difference between Canadian writers and those in the US, how she channeled her own grief experience into her main character, how she believes writing is rewriting, and how embracing bookstagrammers was her single best marketing decision. Kushwaha's road to publication included a fulfilling career in academia, where she studied human geography at Carleton University and earned an M.A. and a Ph.D as a Tri-council funded scholar, collaborating with

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77: Barbara Conrey - Author of Nowhere Near Goodbye

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2021/02/04

). Barbara describes how her age influenced her decision to go with a small press, how her year-long engagement with reader Facebook groups proved invaluable to her book launch, and the story behind how she landed a spot on the USA Today best-seller list four months after her book release. And as a final tidbit, how a random remark she made on Twitter led to a top-drawer blurb. For many years, Barbara worked in the health care industry before opting for an early retirement, which lasted all of

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76: J.L.Cole - Author of Silver Heights

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2021/01/28

J.L. is new to writing but she’s determined to build a career, so if you’re a younger writer, or have a teenager interested in what it takes, she'll inspire you to start right now learning your craft and putting your story down on paper. Plus when was the last time you heard a writer say they actually liked the querying process? Jenna Hanger writing as J.L. Cole resides on an ranch in Alberta, CA with her husband and two young daughters. Her debut novel, Silver Heights, was published by Black Rose

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75: Susan Payne - Author of Forever Kind of Woman

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2021/01/21

If you’re a pantser, this interview is for you! Susan is squarely in the camp of letting your characters tell you their story and she’s got the books to prove it. She’s a prolific romance novelist who is now venturing into women’s fiction, specifically historical tales from late 1800’s America. Her best advice? Stay true to your unique vision. Every trope started with a writer who said “but what if I did it differently?” A voracious reader her whole life, Susan Payne loves the written word.

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74: A. H. Kim - Author of A Good Family

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2021/01/14

Learn how the convergence of knowing someone in a women’s prison, the popularity of Orange is the New Black, and overheard conversations at her law firm about whistleblower monetary rewards came together to inspire this best-selling novel which her agent sold in less than three weeks. A.H. Kim is an immigrant, practicing attorney, cancer survivor, community volunteer, and proud mother of two sons. She lives in San Francisco with her husband. A Good Family is her first novel. Excerpts,

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73: Tricia Hopper Zacher- Author of Many A Sudden Change

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2021/01/07

In this podcast, Tricia and I discuss how a question her daughter posed was the “what if” inspiration behind her debut, how her background in screenwriting both helped and provided challenges when she turned to novel-writing and how, despite the fact she’d landed a top agent, she eventually decided to self-publish. Tricia’s writing career started in 1992 after the tragic loss of her brother to AIDS. Wanting to make a difference in the fight against HIV, she turned to her love of writing and wrote

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72: Amanda Brainerd - Author of Age of Consent

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2020/12/17

In my interview with Amanda Brainerd, we discuss how her debut novel started out as an oral history before morphing into a fictional examination of her years at an elite boarding school and then NYC in the mid ‘80’s, how Fran Leibowitz was an early fan, and a fascinating story of the evolution of her book cover design. Amanda lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with her husband and three children, blocks from where she grew up. She attended The Nightingale-Bamford School and was expelled from

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71: Lindsey Rogers Cook- Author of How to Bury Your...

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2020/12/10

In our interview with Lindsey Rogers Cook, we discuss how she decided after a year to leave her first agent because they clashed over editorial changes, how her training as a journalist for first US News & World Report and now The New York Times, informs her fiction writing, and how she was able to take two months off from her day job on “Book Leave” to finish her second novel which releases next year. Lindsey Cook is a data journalist at The New York Times and a graduate of The University of

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70: Stephanie Newman- Author of Barbarians at the PTA

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2020/12/03

Desperate Housewives meet Mean Girls in Dr. Stephanie Newman’s debut novel, which examines mother-daughter relations, the pervasive nature of social media in kid’s lives and school bullying. Stephanie, a successful psychotherapist, discusses how she had to learn the difference between writing therapy notes and writing fiction, what it’s like to debut on a social media black-out day, and using blog posts and non-fiction op-ed pieces to help promote your novel. Stephanie Newman, Ph.D., is a

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