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Writers Behaving Badly Podcast

Lisa Ireland, Brooke Turnbull & Annie Bucknall

🎙️ A writing podcast that pulls back the curtain on publishing. Lisa Ireland, Brooke Turnbull, and Annie Bucknall mix craft, chaos, and cocktails 🍷 with live mentoring, industry truths 📖, and writing confessions. New episodes every Saturday—because sometimes, it’s good to be bad. 🔥 writersbehavingbadly.substack.com

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52:37

✍️ How to Find the Right Beta Reader (and Be One)

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/10/17

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: It’s the season two finale! Annie, Brooke, and Lisa wrap up a year of literary chaos with bread, burnout, and breakthroughs. Lisa digs deep for one final curly question and Brooke delivers the Footballer’s Baby conception scene…(almost)…Plus: The knitting community comes for Hank Green in a thread war for the ages…What You'll Learn:The difference between a supportive beta reader and a confidence killerHow to give feedback that doesn’t make someone quit writing

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53:29

✍️ Kate Solly on Writing, Imposter Syndrome & Novlr...

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/10/10

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: We’re back with New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth for Part Two of our rollicking chat. Sally dishes on the realities of social media (hint: don’t waste time building a platform before you’ve written the book), resilience in the face of one-star reviews, and the myth-busting advice every aspiring author needs to hear.She also spills some tea on a library event with Lisa that went hilariously sideways—complete with Maud heckling from the front

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46:49

✍️ When to Send Your Book to Beta Readers

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/10/03

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: It’s our very first live, in-person episode—recorded in Sydney with questionable tech, maximum chaos, and at least one snort that may or may not become a sound effect.Brooke fights through a new-job writing slump, Lisa produces her award-winning early manuscript for listening pleasure and Annie gets distracted by a 90s inspired dream. There’s a dramatic reading, a curly question about beta readers and tea that makes us wonder if Malcolm Turnbull has a Google

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44:24

✍️ How to Write Believable Romantic Conflict

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/09/26

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: Season Two kicks off with triple wins! Brooke discovers the power of horny ghosts, Lisa finds her character voice (and an accountability partner who doesn't mess around), and Annie reclaims her historical heroine's agency. Plus, we debut Brooke's very first novel—complete with mysterious football jerseys and a dubious hall-of-fame.What You'll Learn:How to move past "am I saying anything important?" by focusing on what you do well—fun genres matter too!How

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24:36

✍️ Sally Hepworth on Social Media for Authors

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/09/19

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: We’re back with New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth for Part Two of our rollicking chat. Sally dishes on the realities of social media (hint: don’t waste time building a platform before you’ve written the book), resilience in the face of one-star reviews, and the myth-busting advice every aspiring author needs to hear.She also spills some tea on a library event with Lisa that went hilariously sideways—complete with Maud heckling from the front

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46:38

✍️Why Consistency is King with Sally Hepworth

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/09/12

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: We welcome New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth! She joins us to chat about her incredible career, from the book that changed everything (The Mother-in-Law) to billboard moments in Bourke Street Mall, optioned screen adaptations, and why resilience beats luck every time. She also confesses to once dictating Lisa’s plotting process with a stack of index cards (but she might have won that argument in the end 👀)Plus: Sally and Brooke bond over ‘town

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51:41

✍️Complexity vs. Depth: are you writing layers or...

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/09/05

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: The hosts sin in varying degrees (and one of them blames it on their husband 👀). Brooke dusts off her shiny flirtation of a manuscript, Bad Boy Lessons and is given Lisa’s toughest roast yet. We tackle a curly question on story complexity versus depth and spill the tea on a Bookstagrammer who admitted to pirating books…Plus: Hotel hijinks, write-along confessions, and Lisa pushes the GCM…again 😉What You'll Learn:How to tell if your story is truly complex, or

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68:46

✍️Tess Woods On Why Overnight Success Takes Years

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/08/29

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: We interview the incredible and hilarious Tess Woods about her publishing journey (and why she almost quit for good…). Seriously she wrote her first novel in three days! The collective writing vibes were buzzing at write-along and we delivered a room full of winners and Tess spills part two of her embarrassing publishing encounters…This week’s write-along winners 🏆👏Casey, Sue Ann, Belinda, Tanya, Helen, Erin, Simone, Lucinda, Athena, KyliePlus: Brooke’s

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44:48

🍿Prologues: genius or garbage?

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/08/24

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: Lisa smashes through her word count goal and we all feel confident this book is going to get finished, Brooke unleashes the horniest ghost in literary history, and Annie gets lost in falconry research (spoiler: no actual falcon purchased…yet). We debate whether prologues are brilliant or pointless fluff, dive deeper on publishing pay, and hear how bestselling author Tess Woods once mistook a literary legend for a random dinner guest. Plus: Sweet pepper perfume,

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44:48

✍️Prologues: genius or garbage?

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/08/22

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: Lisa smashes through her word count goal and we all feel confident this book is going to get finished, Brooke unleashes the horniest ghost in literary history, and Annie gets lost in falconry research (spoiler: no actual falcon purchased…yet). We debate whether prologues are brilliant or pointless fluff, dive deeper on publishing pay, and hear how bestselling author Tess Woods once mistook a literary legend for a random dinner guest. Plus: Sweet pepper perfume,

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36:33

✍️The truth about money in the book biz

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2025/08/15

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: We wrap our very first Badly Behaved Write-Along with zero sinners and a podium full of winners. Brooke hypes strangers for cash (yes, really), Lisa steam-trains past 50k words, and Annie survives strict homework and a new fringe. We’re also joined by bestselling author Kylie Orr who spills on the seven-year slog to her debut and why “show, don’t tell” is terrible advice. Finally, Tea Time serves up an AI-authored publishing disaster and one man’s pitch to turn

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47:15

✍️ Do you need a first chapter checklist?

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/08/08

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: Season Two kicks off with triple wins! Brooke discovers the power of horny ghosts, Lisa finds her character voice (and an accountability partner who doesn't mess around), and Annie reclaims her historical heroine's agency. Plus, we debut Brooke's very first novel—complete with mysterious football jerseys and a dubious hall-of-fame.What You'll Learn:How to move past "am I saying anything important?" by focusing on what you do well—fun genres matter too!How

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52:53

✍️Rachael Johns On Navigating Writer Burnout

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/07/20

In this week’s bonus episode of Writers Behaving Badly: It’s the full, un-cut interview with Rachael Johns covering the highs and lows of the publishing industry, imposter syndrome and so much more. Whether you’re a reader or a writer, there is so much to take away from this chat with Rach!Season Two of Writers Behaving Badly returns on 9th August 2025. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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53:11

✍️What a Writing Coach’s First Draft Really Looks Like

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/07/05

This week on Writers Behaving Badly: Annie cries into her keyboard and calls it kink, Brooke rewrites her way out of despair, Lisa almost writes (Word is open!), and we all lose our minds over a listener’s first page. Also: AI in publishing—is it the end of craft as we know it?What You'll Learn:How to craft a first page that grips and devastatesThe emotional tools to write through chaosWhy great writing doesn’t need connections—just humanityWhether AI is a shortcut or creative death spiralSegments

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46:43

Robots Behaving Badly

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/06/20

A knockout listener submission stops us in our tracks with its raw emotion and vivid character voice—earning a proper toast from Lisa (and a gentle formatting nudge). Brooke’s back in the winner’s corner, Annie’s writing through a breakup with 8,000 words of feminist rage kink (don’t worry, we’re concerned too), and Lisa is…nearly writing. Almost. We end on a hot, bitter cup of AI discourse where Lisa declares she'd rather chew on a teabag than outsource a single sentence to a robot.Got a sin to

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51:40

The internet is not a safe space

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/06/06

This week, Kelly Rimmer joins the pod to chat imposter syndrome and drops some truth bombs for aspiring writers, Brooke and Annie face off over trigger warnings, Annie reads her words and Lisa recommends a cozy cat game.Got a sin to confess?Tell us your worst writing sin of the week in the comments—did you out-bad us?Leave a commentWhat’s inside this episode?🔥 Sins & Wins – Sinners and winners are all around!✍️ Roast or Toast – Annie reads the latest from her WIP and Lisa gives her a gold star for

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49:47

Why is my manuscript being mean to me?

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/05/23

This week, Lisa fesses up to making her debut (pics below), Brooke wants to know why her manuscript hates her then proceeds to read a breathtaking passage, Lisa answers a curly question and Kylie Orr fesses up!Did we all just…win??? You’ll have to listen to find out. Brooke has a very relatable editing moment but then proceeds to knock it out of the park with her feedback. Lisa explains how to know if you have a story or a situation and Kylie Orr admits to getting busted in a library.It’s chaotic

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47:14

"Just Admit You're Bad in Bed..."

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/05/09

This week, Lisa gives you a free pass to watch TV, Brooke gets tongue-tied interviewing our guest Ella Ward and has a pre-prepared tea rant that SLAPS.Two of us are in the sin bin, one of us delivers words while the other two hype her up like she’s famous, one of us has her dreams come true by becoming an Ella Ward and Lisa Ireland sandwich and delivers a pre-prepared tea rant that scolds genre snobs.It’s chaotic. It’s unhinged. It’s exactly the kind of writing therapy you didn’t know you needed.Got

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40:29

Unhinged and Un-Agented

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/04/25

This week, things get weirdly sexual.One of us ghosts an agent (for five years), one of us confesses to writing nothing (again), and one of us accidentally turns a homicide detective into a Renaissance actor. There’s also drone footage, shame spirals, and the most unexpected sex metaphor ever uttered on a writing podcast (thanks, Lisa.)It’s chaotic. It’s unhinged. It’s exactly the kind of writing therapy you didn’t know you needed.Got a sin to confess?Tell us your worst writing sin of the week in

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43:29

Everyone’s a Sinner, Baby!

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast ·

2025/04/14

This week on Writers Behaving Badly, Brooke and Annie spiral into shame spirals, Lisa serves up a full-course manuscript masterclass (with sides of encouragement and mild roasting), and author Kylie Ladd drops by to destroy every writing rule you thought was gospel. Honestly? It’s a lot. But it’s also your new writing therapy session.Welcome back to Writers Behaving Badly, the podcast where manuscripts are sacred, self-doubt is shared, and our editing decisions come with a side of existential dread

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